Published on March 27, 2024, 10:45 p.m. / ©fotolia.com
A strong earthquake of magnitude 4.0 occurred today near the Austrian border in Italy. It was also felt in Carinthia, as several readers tell us.
by Phillip Plattner
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“Is it possible that an earthquake was felt today at 10:20 p.m.?” A man from Villach, for example, contacted us with this question. People also seem to have felt it in Oberamlach and Bad Bleiberg. Carinthians from these towns have also written to us.
In the border region between Italy and Switzerland
In fact, there were two earthquakes in Italy today around 10:20 p.m. Once the earth shook like this in the border region between Italy and Switzerland „GeoSphere Austria“ reported. According to initial information, the earthquake had a magnitude of 4.0 on the Richter scale. However, as of 10:45 p.m., there is still an “unverified automatic evaluation of GeoSphere Austria,” as the experts report on their website.
Update 10:55 p.m.: Second earthquake at the same time was even stronger
The second earthquake, which occurred around the same time, was even stronger. With a strength of currently untested 4.8 on the Richter scale It was significantly closer to Carinthia and may therefore have generated reader reports. “The earthquake was felt weakly to clearly in Carinthia,” explains GeoSphere. It happened in the Villa Santina area about 36 kilometers south of Kötschach-Mauthen.
A notice: This post was updated on March 28, 2024 at 9:32 p.m