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El terremoto de Dúrcal de 1954

Dúrcal, Valle de Lecrín, Granada

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El terremoto de Dúrcal de 1954

Curiosity · Dúrcal, Valle de Lecrín, Granada

Image of Dúrcal, not of the place itself.

On 29 March 1954 a magnitude 7.8 earthquake was recorded beneath Dúrcal, one of the deepest ever measured in the world (hypocenter about 626 km deep), which is why it caused no casualties or damage despite its intensity.

29 de marzo de 1954

Photo: Bernardo Baggio (CC BY 2.0)

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