Seismic swarm on the Costa Blanca

Seismic swarm on the Costa Blanca

On Monday, August 4, the Alicante province recorded several earthquakes between 50 and 110 kilometres off the coast of Torrevieja, Santa Pola, and Guardamar del Segura. This unusual series is known as a seismic swarm, and more than a dozen tremors in total were detected off the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. A seismic swarm refers to a cluster of small earthquakes occurring in the same region… Source