A renewed media focus on earthquakes – since Portugal’s largest quake in decades last week – is seeing every single one being mentioned, even when they are so insignificant (and absolutely normal) that ‘usually’ the detail would have not even elicited a passing glance. For anyone curious as to how many tremors the mainland and regional archipelagos experience, see ipma.pt and click on ‘atividade sísmica’. Alternatively, hear that Benavente suffered a 1.9 tremor yesterday, and Sesimbra one measuring 3 on the Richter Scale early this morning. As with the ‘largest earthquake in decades’, the result was that the crushing majority of citizens slept through both.
Renewed focus on earthquakes catalogues every single one…
