Azores Situation Report Wednesday 3rd April 2024
The search for the missing diver in the sea off Terceira Island resumed on Monday.
The search resumed on Monday afternoon for the diver who has been missing at sea, on the island of Terceira, since March 30th.
According to a statement from the National Maritime Authority, “the search for the diver who has been missing since March 30th, near the Fradinhos islets, on Terceira Island, will resume in the early afternoon of today, April 1st, as soon as conditions meteorological and oceanographic data allow it”.
In the search operations, coordinated by the Port Captain and local Commander of the Maritime Police of Praia da Vitória and Angra do Heroísmo, crew members from the “Lifeguard Station of Praia da Vitória and Angra do Heroísmo and elements of the local Command of the Praia da Vitória Maritime Police, supported by a vessel, as well as a group of voluntary amateur divers from the island’s nautical clubs”.
The AMN press release states that the “Maritime Police Psychology office has been activated and is providing support to the victim’s family and friends”.
“According to what was possible to ascertain, the 43-year-old man was practicing diving and did not return to land”, concludes the AMN note.
Earthquake measuring 2.7 on the Richter scale felt on Terceira Island.
An earthquake measuring 2.7 on the Richter scale, with an epicentre about four kilometres east of Serreta, on the island of Terceira, was felt on the 31st of March at 12:29 (13:29 Lisbon), according to IPMA.
The Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA) informs that the event did not cause personal or material damage and was felt with the maximum intensity of III/IV on the modified Mercalli scale, in the parish of Raminho, in Terceira.
According to the Richter scale, earthquakes are classified according to their magnitude as micro (less than 2.0), very small (2.0-2.9), small (3.0-3.9), slight (4 ,0-4.9), moderate (5.0-5.9), strong (6.0-6.9), large (7.0-7.9), important (8.0-8.9 ), exceptional (9.0-9.9) and extreme (when higher than 10).
The Modified Mercalli scale measures “degrees of intensity and respective description”.
With intensity III, considered weak, the shock is felt inside the house and hanging objects swing, perceiving a “vibration similar to that caused by the passage of heavy vehicles”, reveals the IPMA on its website.