Lorca earthquake in 2011
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| Coordinates | 37 ° 41 ′ 49 ″ N , 1 ° 33 ′ 22 ″ W | ||
| date | May 11, 2011 | ||
| Time | 6:47 p.m. CET | ||
| Magnitude | 5.1 M W | ||
| epicenter | Lorca | ||
| country | Spain | ||
| Tsunami | No | ||
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The 2011 Lorca earthquake was a major earthquake . The epicenter was in the southern Spanish city of Lorca . The quake occurred on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 6:47 p.m. CEST (4:47 p.m. UTC ). The earthquake had a magnitude of 5.1 M w on the moment magnitude scale . The depth of the hypocenter of the quake was initially given as 1 kilometer; later three kilometers were mentioned.
Effect of the quake
Major damage was reported from the two cities of Lorca and Murcia . The earthquake claimed at least nine lives and around 300 injured. The then Spanish Prime Minister José Zapatero sent a special unit to the disaster area.
Possible Cause
An international research team led by Pablo González from the University of Western Ontario in Canada wrote in the journal "Nature Geoscience" in 2012 that earthquakes of this magnitude normally occur much deeper and that human activities were probably partly responsible for the quake. According to her, the water table around Lorca has dropped by at least 250 meters since 1960 due to continuous pumping out of the water. The researchers evaluated satellite images.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Strong earthquake in southern Spain , naturgewalten.de
- ↑ Magnitude 5.1 - SPAIN. (No longer available online.) United States Geological Survey , May 11, 2011, archived from the original on May 14, 2011 ; accessed on May 13, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b spiegel.de: People are said to have helped trigger quakes
- ↑ Apocalyptic scenes during earthquakes in Spain. Der Tagesspiegel, May 12, 2011, accessed June 30, 2011 .
- ↑ Several deaths in earthquakes in southern Spain , Die Zeit
