Africa-Press – Cape verde. Cape Verde recorded, on Monday, the strongest earthquake in the last 15 years, the National Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics (INMG) announced this Wednesday, although the damage, with one injured, was limited and limited to Brava Island , in the south of the country.
Case of earthquakes in Brava: Cape Verde felt the strongest earthquake in the last 15 years, but without alarm – Geophysicist
A seismic crisis began at 6:20 pm on Monday (7:20 pm in Lisbon) off Brava Island, “culminating at 9:00 pm (10:00 pm in Lisbon) in the strongest earthquake recorded in Cape Verde in recent years. 15 years”, with a magnitude of 4.8 on the Richter scale, said geophysicist Bruno Faria cited by Lusa.
The person responsible was speaking at a press conference in Mindelo, on the island of São Vicente, in a first assessment of the shocks recorded in all seismic stations in the archipelago and which have been felt by residents on the Brava and Fogo islands.
The epicenters are located at high seas, in an area (Praia d’Aguada) at a great depth of the Earth’s crust (more than 500 meters above sea level), which in geological terms “is good news”, said Bruno Faria .
“ There is no reason to panic ”, especially because “ seismic activity has been observed to be increasing” since this Wednesday afternoon, he stressed, referring to scientific explanations about the origin of the tremors after deeper analyses.
“We have to wait ”, he stressed, framing the seismic crisis in the planet’s natural geological pulse, about which the population must be informed, but without being alarmed, remembering that seismic activity is part of life on the islands in the south of the archipelago.
According to the same source, the earthquakes caused damage to Brava Island, to homes, with roofs and other structures collapsing, causing one injury, as well as cracks opening.
The situation led families to choose to sleep on the street, but, during the day, the environment returned to normal, according to information collected by Lusa.
This time ” Brava shook harder “, said António Lopes Marcelino, director of municipal civil protection on the island with around 5,500 inhabitants.
Paulo Rocha, Minister of Internal Administration, announced the displacement of a team from the National Civil Protection Service, to join the work of local authorities.
Around 30 kilometers east of Brava Island is the volcano on Fogo Island, which last erupted in 2014, Lusa reports.
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