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Moderate M 5.4 Earthquake – 52 km W of Sines, Portugal

 

Moderate Earthquake with epicentre in the sea, southeast of Sesimbra.

UPDATE:

CIVIL PROTECTION PRESS CONFERENCE – EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 5.3 (RICHTER) WEST OF SINES

The national commander of Civil Protection, André Fernandes, confirms that the earthquake had a magnitude of 5.3 and that it occurred at 5:11 local time. “There is no record of personal or material damage”, he mentioned.
André Fernandes also says that three aftershocks of the earthquake have already been recorded, with magnitudes of 1.2, 1.1 and 0.9 on the Richter scale. The situation is now in the “monitoring phase”.
During the morning there was a “peak in calls” to the several civil protection agents, especially firefighters stations, who provided information to the population. “We have made contact with the regional commands and we have no record of any request for help, only requests for information, there was no damages reported”, he informs.

The representative of the national authority calls for the population to remain calm and a “resumption of normal life” this morning and advises staying informed through official channels and the media.

ORIGINAL POST

The earth shook in Portugal at 5:11 a.m. this morning, with a tremor felt mainly in the Lisbon and Setúbal areas. The earthquake had a magnitude of 5.3, according to data from the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA). The epicentre of the earthquake was in the Atlantic, 70 km southeast of Sesimbra.

The quake had a very shallow depth of 17.5 km (11 mi) and was felt over a large region. The shallow depth of the quake caused it to be felt more strongly near the epicenter than a deeper quake of similar magnitude would.

Civil Protection told Lusa that it had received reports that the earthquake had been felt throughout the Lisbon metropolitan area, including the capital, but also in the district of Setúbal.

Other entities, such as the Euro-Mediterranean Seismology Center, initially pointed to a scale of 5.9. And the United States Geological Survey estimated the impact at 5.4.

There was no news of any damage, either human or material. There were reports of the impact of the earthquake in other parts of the country, such as Gaia and Viseu.

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