Italy recorded an average of more than 44 earthquakes per day in 2023, with a total of 16,307 tremors during the year, a figure practically identical to that reported in 2022 and which has remained stable since 2019, the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology reported this Monday. (INGV).
The number of earthquakes “has remained practically stable since 2019, below the years 2016, 2017 and 2018 characterized by the seismic sequence in central Italy (Amatrice – Norcia – Visso) that began on August 24, 2016”, indicated the INGV on its website.
That day, a magnitude 6 earthquake caused 303 deaths and devastated Amatrice, a town symbol of the earthquake, along with more than a hundred municipalities in central Italy, where tens of thousands were left homeless and 340,000 buildings were damaged.
In 2023, the total number of earthquakes exceeded the previous year’s figure by five (16,302), with “almost one earthquake every half hour”, while those registered in the center accounted for 30% of the earthquakes in all of Italy, with about 5,000 .
The two strongest earthquakes
The two strongest, which exceeded 5 degrees in magnitude, were located outside Italian territory, in Croatia and south of the Tyrrhenian Sea, where the highest magnitude, 5.2 degrees, was recorded.
This earthquake had its epicenter off the coast of Calabria (south) on May 1, but thanks to its depth, 268 kilometers from the surface, it was barely felt by the population.
The seismographs also detected 26 tremors of between 4 and 4.9 degrees, 233 of between 3 and 3.9 degrees and 2,018 tremors of a magnitude greater than 2. With EFE
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