On Thursday, the Spanish National Geographic Institute (IGN) recorded an earthquake measuring 2.4 on the Richter scale near El Hierro. The tremor occurred at 2.59 pm, with the epicentre at a depth of 12 kilometres.
The earthquake off El Hierro was slightly stronger than the average recorded by the Canary Islands Institute over the past 30 days. This average was 2. The data measured by the IGN is also analysed by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC).
In total, the IGN recorded 47 earthquakes in the Canary Islands region during this period, an average of 1.6 per day. There were eight in the past seven days. The past week was therefore somewhat quieter than the average for the entire 30-day period.
Canary Islands: Further earthquakes off Tenerife and Gran Canaria
Earlier, at 8.36 am on Thursday, the IGN had recorded a magnitude 2 earthquake near Tenerife, with the epicentre at a depth of 32 kilometres. On Wednesday at 9.36 pm, the earth trembled 20 kilometres off Tenerife with a magnitude of 2.1 at a depth of 16 kilometres. On Tuesday at 5.45 am, the stations recorded an earthquake 60 kilometres off Gran Canaria with a magnitude of 2.2; its epicentre was 18 kilometres deep.
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