An island in the Atlantic Ocean is witnessing 1,100 earthquakes in 48 hours!
About 1,100 small earthquakes shook a volcanic island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in less than 48 hours, prompting authorities to activate an emergency plan while experts assess what they described as a "seismic crisis".
Roy Marques, head of the Volcanic Seismic Activity Monitoring Center in the Azores archipelago, told Reuters that earthquakes with a magnitude of 1.9 to 3.3 have been recorded on São Jorge Island since Saturday noon.
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