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It has recently been a 4th degree one at Vitoria-Gasteiz, in the North of Spain. One of the least probable places you would even think of have an earthquake...


Unfortunately Spain and Portugal have seen quite a few earthquakes over the centuries, some of them quite deadly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Spain


There may be a new subduction zone forming in the Atlantic off the coast there.

This all happens in geologic slow motion, of course.

https://www.livescience.com/37418-subduction-zone-forming-of...


That's the South; the zone I'm posting about it's pretty much near the Atlantic modulo a small mountain range.


The updated IGN website doesnt work properly for me. The old site was so much better, do you know if there is an alternative?




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