Cape Verde recorded its strongest earthquake in 15 years on Monday, the National Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics (INMG) said on Tuesday, although damage that injured one person was limited to the island of Brava. south.
The seismic crisis began at 18:20 on Monday (19:20 in Lisbon) off the island of Brava, “ending at 21:00 (22:00 in Lisbon) with the strongest earthquake recorded in Cape Verde in the last 15 years. “magnitude 4.8 on the Richter scale,” said geophysicist Bruno Faria.
The person in charge was speaking at a press conference in Mindelo, on the island of São Vicente, during the first assessment of the tremors recorded at all seismic stations in the archipelago and felt by the inhabitants of the islands of Brava and Fogo.
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