Variously reported at 5.4, maybe 5.9. About 5.11 am this morning. Some way from us, 50 km out at sea from Sines – so, hmm, 130 to 150 km away from us.
Could deffo be felt but not hard – and heard. A proper grumble to it.
From what I understand it’s the same fault that set off the Great Lisbon quake (the real damage from which was the tsunami) which is nice and reassuring, eh?
And those tossers not allowing fracking because of 1.0 quakes can suck my…..well, you know.
Oooh, I’m jealous! Always wanted to experience an earthquake (safely, obviously).
Julia
I have (a few, while staying in hotels, in California).
No harm done. Flexible, reasonably earthquake-proof hotels.
However, these were experiences that I will be very glad never to repeat.
Did the earthquake shake things up enough to affect your well?
Sadly, no, far far too mild and far away. Anything that would affect the well would affect the house – distinctly negatively – as well so good thing too.
Pah.
Just the other day a mighty fissure rent the ground asunder at the end of my road, from which dinosaurs emerged. I fell into a pit of flame and magma and was then eaten by a Tyrranosaurus.
Nice cup of tea fixed that.
Yes, definitely envious. I only remember one in the UK, in Poole, Dorset, in the late ’80s. It was like a big lorry going past – enough to get people looking up and saying “Whassat?!”, but it was only later when I saw it on the news that there had been a minor tremor.
About the same time there was one in Wales – Wrexham maybe? We felt it in Cheltenham. Had one we felt in Albufeira a fwe years back. But then having lived in both California and Naples not exactly unused to them….
There was an earthquake in southern Scotland a few decades ago. Letters to the papers revealed the emergence of a new unit of severity: “my budgie fell off its perch”.
@dearieme
‘…the emergence of a new unit of severity: “my budgie fell off its perch”.’
Ahh, that would be the Modified Mrs. McCally Scale
“my budgie fell off its perch”.
Should have been nailed there, obvs.
Can’t be bothered to look it up again, but IIRC the Victoria Line is more seismic than fracking.
– From what I understand it’s the same fault that set off the Great Lisbon quake (the real damage from which was the tsunami) which is nice and reassuring, eh?
50km offshore from Sines puts it well away from the Azores-Gibraltar Transform Fault, part of which is the prime suspect for the 1755 quake. As for the fault that caused today’s shaking, generally anything up to a 6.0 is a win, since it releases lots of energy without causing much harm.
Good news – Portugal has sensible seismic building regs. Bad news – monitoring and enforcement are feeble.
As mentioned yesterday, you live downstream from a large body of water behind a dam. Hopefully that was planned and constructed properly. Your village is set well back from the little river up a gentle slope. Hopefully that’s enough since the hills the other side are higher and steeper; any torrents and floods will be on your side.
If you aren’t a “prepper” already perhaps today is a good prompt to become one.
I felt this earthquake back in April. However, I live not far from a freight railroad line, so when it occurred I just thought it was another (but much heavier) train going by. It wasn’t until about 20 minutes later when my midwestern-based supervisor asked if those of us in this area were OK that I found out what really happened!
Sitting in the living room when this one happened.
Whoops little fast
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Anchorage_earthquake