23 Jan, 2018 @ 11:16
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Earthquake rocks Costa del Sol and is the region’s FOURTH tremor in four days

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AN earthquake was detected off the coast of Malaga this morning. 

The tremor occured at 8.27am and measured at 3.4 in the Richter scale, according to the National Geographic Institute.

The quake was 85 kilometres deep in the Albora Oeste area, just off the coast of Fuengirola, Benalmadena and Torremolinos.

It comes 24 hours after another quake was registered between the provinces of Malaga and Sevilla.

The epicenter was detected at 8.03am and twelve kilometers deep in the Sevilla town El Saucejo and registered 2.9 on the Richter scale.

On Saturday, at around 21.31pm, another tremor of 1.7 was recorded in the same area, while on Sunday another one of 2.3 was detected at 9.16pm.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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