The Portuguese Institute of Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA) recorded two small earthquakes on Wednesday morning in Silves, Algarve, after announcing that it will improve the site that can not stand the accesses during a large earthquake.
In this dawn, a 2.7 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale around 3:11 am, with an epicenter about 25 km northeast of Silvesaccording to the IPMA.
A minute later, the earth shivered again in the same zone with a magnitude earthquake 2.9.
Was also registered at dawn a Magnitude 2.7 earthquake nos Ilhéus das Anton the island of Santa Maria, in the Azores.
Already this Wednesday morning, at 10:43 hours, there was a Magnitude 2.6 earthquake with epicenter about 25 km north-northeast of Mountalegre.
Were earthquakes that we can call “silent”, since They were hardly felt by the populationscontrary to what happened on Monday, by one in the afternoon.
At that time, the Lisbon region was shaken by one on the Richter scale, with epicenter 14 kilometers from Seixal.
IPMA invests 4.5 million on the site after breaks due to excess access
Monday’s earthquake was also felt in other areas of the country, and led many people to seek information on. But the excess of accesses led to a Break in the operation of the site.
It was 13:24 hours when the earth trembled, and there was more than “420 thousand” accesses to the IPMA website, according to data sent by the entity to.
For about 30 minutes, “ traffic was 8.5 times the annual average daily traffic“, Points the IPMA, assuming that the site” is no longer sized for this capacity “.
Thus, the entity announces that it will invest “4.5 million eurosunder the PRR [Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência] and the state budget, to reinforce the energy and computer network, as well as the infrastructure of geophysical/seismic monitoring and early warning of tsunamis ”.
This investment should allow “to exceed the verified constraints”, announces the IPMA.
In addition to the IPMA page on the Internet, it is possible to follow the seismological situation through the app .
