by British tourists in Spain Costa Blanca were shaken by an intensive earthquake on Tuesday morning, with a person said that they were “almost thrown out of the tremors”.
Shortly after midnight, the quake rattled through popular resort cities and led the locals and holidaymakers by almost a dozen alarmed calls to emergency services.
“It was something else. The whole house was trembling. I couldn’t go back to sleep when I thought it would be more. This was the strongest and loudest that I have experienced so far,” said a Brit in the Los Balcones area south of Turrevieja.
“My whole house trembled!” A social media user wrote. Another added: “Well, an earthquake has aroused me here at home in Torrevieja … what an unpleasant feeling. I’m freaky.”
A resident told the local media that it was “the strongest quake that I have ever felt in my life”.
The quake’s epicenter was only three miles off the coast and only one mile below the sea floor, which was widespread in southern Valencia and parts of Murcia.
According to Spain’s Geográfico Nacional, the tremor recorded a size of 2.8.
According to local authorities, the quake with III-IV applies in the European Macrosesmic scale, which means that it was “clearly perceived by people inside”.
Rescue services received 11 calls from affected citizens, although there were no reports on structural damage.
In Orihuela Costa, the locals reported “a lot of noise and vibrations”, with a person said that it was “short but strong”.
Matías, a inhabitant, described the sound that was created by shifting tectonic plates: “I am used to this kind of events, but the quake of the last night caused a very loud noise as if the stones would break deep underground.”
Others mentioned a loud bang, followed by creaking sounds from the masonry of their buildings.
Torrevieja is only 70 miles from Benidorm, a holiday city that is popular with British tourists.
Spain’s southeastern corner has a story of earthquakes. In 2011, an earthquake of 5.1 magnificent size killed nine people and caused considerable damage in the city of Lorca in the Murcia region.
At the beginning of this year, Greece Aegean was equipped by a large series of tremors, including a powerful earthquake of the size of 5.3 size on the popular tourist destination from Santorini.
Between January and February and February, more than 12,800 quakes were found by the Seismological Laboratory of the University of Athens in the region, which led to damage to buildings and infrastructures and warnings from authorities in order to pay attention to this when visiting dangerous places.
