Lorca Solidarity with neighbors. Murcia. The earthquake in the Murcia town of Lorca is the most serious incident of its kind in the last fifty years in Spain.
The largest earthquake that has caused casualties in Spain since the fifties, was the one that occurred on April 20, 1956, killed 12 people, most than 70 were injured and half a thousand buildings collapsed because of the violent earthquake that hit several towns of Granada, especially Albolote and Atarfe.
The last earthquake with victims took place on February 28, 1969 on the coast of Huelva and killed at least four people for heart attacks. The earthquake was estimated at 7.5 degrees on the Richter scale.
The strongest earthquakes occurred in Spain in the last fifty years have taken place in this order, in the fifties, the aforementioned 1969, 1989, 2005, two in 2007, 2009 and 2010.
March 29, 1954, an earthquake of 7 degrees on the Richter scale took place in the town of Dúrcal (Granada). On December 20, 1989, an earthquake of 5.3 degrees, with its epicenter in Huelva, caused power outages and caused alarm among the population of Seville and Huelva.
in Murcia, on February 2, 1999 there were two earthquakes (5.2 and 3.5 degrees Richter), followed by several weaker aftershocks. There were two dozen wounded.
Three years later, on August 6, 2002, an earthquake of 4.5 degrees, with its epicenter in Bullas (Murcia), slightly injuring a woman and damage to property in the districts high Lorca. On January 29, 2005 an earthquake of 4.7 magnitude and 500 aftershocks in the days posteriores, con epicentro de nuevo en Bullas (Murcia) y se sintió también en las provincias limítrofes, destruyó 800 viviendas en Zarzilla de Ramos, La Paca, Lorca (Murcia).
Menores fueron los efectos del seísmo que, el 12 de febrero de 2007, con epicentro a unos 200 kilómetros del cabo portugués de San Vicente motivó desalojos de numerosos edificios en Huelva.
De nuevo, el 12 de agosto de 2007 un terremoto de 5,1 grados se registró en Ciudad Real causando alarma a numerosos ciudadanos, si bien no provocó víctimas y sí daños materiales, entre ellos, el Teatro Municipal de Almagro, un edificio emblemático del siglo XIX.
El 17 de diciembre 2009, a 6.3 earthquake with its epicenter 100 kilometers south of Cape San Vicente caused panic in the west coast of Andalusia, but no notable damage.
The 4.7 magnitude earthquake recorded in Dúrcal (Granada) on April 12, 2010, and caused no major damage, is the last of a certain intensity in Spain until today
Information Diario de Sevilla 12/05/2011 ...
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