Adnkronos (Adnkronos) – The Italian National Institute of Geophysics (INGV) is recording dozens of earthquakes in the Southern Tyrrhenian Sea, about 30 km northwest of Alicudi, in the Aeolian Islands. The magnitude of these tremors is so high that they were felt today in Palermo, Trapani, Catanzaro, and Reggio Calabria. The INGV announced this in one of its updates on the seismic situation in the area.
As the INGV confirmed to AdnKronos, there were precisely 42 tremors above magnitude 2 up to 17 pm. The strongest earthquake, of magnitude 5.0, occurred at 12:19 pm Italian time, and was located 62 km from Malfa (ME), 63 km from Leni (ME), 66 km from Santa Marina Salina (ME) and at a depth of 9 km.
Two events with a magnitude of 4.0 or greater also occurred: the magnitude 4.3 event at 11:51 a.m. and the magnitude 4.0 event at 12:24 p.m.
The INGV states on its website that “looking at the map with seismicity from 1985 to today, in this area seismicity is frequent with numerous events of magnitude greater than 4.0, such as those of 7 February 2025 (Mw 4.7) and 7 September 2009 (Mw 4.7).
In the area of the Aeolian archipelago, events of greater magnitude have also occurred, characterised by very high hypocentral depths (up to hundreds of kilometres) linked to the subduction process, such as the event of 5 May 2004 (Ml 5.3) which occurred at a depth of 255 km”.
And then again: "The area affected by the current sequence is close to the Aeolian Islands, a region characterized by high seismic risk, as evidenced by the Seismic Hazard Map of the national territory and by the strong earthquakes that have occurred in the past."
News
webinfo@adnkronos.com (Web Info)