Thursday, October 10, 2024

The seismological network in Italy recorded an earthquake every half hour in 2022

Must Read

The report, which was published Thursday on that body’s official website, notes that these numbers are slightly higher than those for 2021, and notes that the number of annual earthquakes has remained relatively stable at around 16,000 since 2019.

The largest earthquakes that occurred in the region were outside the Italian lands, in Algeria and Bosnia, or in the waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Gulf of Policastro and the Adriatic Sea, along the coasts of this country, which is similar to what happened in 2021.

The most important seismic sequence of this period occurred on the morning of November 9 off the Adriatic coast of the municipality of Pesaro Marche, Marche region, with two earthquakes of magnitude 5.5 and 5.2 on the Richter scale, with a slight difference between them, felt in a very wide area of ​​the center and north of this country.

The source said the strongest earthquake on the mainland had a magnitude of 4.3 that affected the Ionian coast of the province of Catanzaro in the southern region of Calabria on October 13 at 00:44 local time.

In 2022, the seismic network of this country detected six events of magnitude greater than or equal to 5.0 in the region, one in Algeria, the other in Bosnia, and the third in the Policastro Gulf located in the southern regions of Campania, Basilicata. and Calabria, as well as the two corresponding to the mentioned seismic sequence in Pesaro Marche.

Two thousand 207 were recorded with a scale equal to or greater than 2.0 on the Richter scale, 258 of them with a score between 3.0 and 3.9; In addition to 27 others between 4.0 and 4.9, 11 of which are located in neighboring countries such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Greece, Malta and Germany.

See also  Russia demands immediate security guarantees from the West

Four of these events occurred on the Italian continent, two of them in the south of the country, one in the Sicilian province of Agrigento, with a magnitude of 4.1, and the other in Catanzaro, in the Calabria region, with a magnitude of 4.3 on the Richter scale. Richter scale is the most important.

Those affected in the north of this nation occurred in the province of Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna region, with 4.3 on the Richter scale, as well as in the province of Genoa, Liguria region, with 4, 0 on the Richter scale, adds the INGV analysis.

RO / ort

Latest News

Fast, Private No-Verification Casinos in New Zealand: Insights from Pettie Iv

The world of online gambling has come a long way since its inception, and New Zealand has been no...

More Articles Like This