A seismic swarm of 11 shocks, all of low magnitude, has been affecting the crater area of Vesuvius since dawn today. It was the Vesuvius Observatory that detected the seismic events with the first shock this morning at 6,21:1.5 with a magnitude of 20,21 on the Richter scale and gave the news. The last event, in chronological order, recorded by the seismographs of the INGV was at 16,55:2.3 this evening. The shock of the highest magnitude was detected, instead, at XNUMX:XNUMX today at a depth of one and a half kilometers and of magnitude XNUMX on the Richter scale. For Francesca Bianco, director of the Vesuvius Observatory: 'There is absolutely nothing to be alarmed about. It is normal activity of the volcano"
Article published on November 29, 2018 - 21:14