A strong earthquake of 2.3 magnitude was recorded in the estuary of the Allikle Bay River west of the Pakri Islands in Estonia on Monday morning, according to the Estonian national broadcaster ERR, TV3 reports.
The earthquake was recorded by the Finnish and Estonian seismic monitoring systems. The depth of the earthquake is estimated to be about four kilometers, which is similar to the depths of other earthquakes in northwestern Estonia over the past decade.
In recent decades, an earthquake has been recorded in Estonia every two years. It was last recorded on March 14, 2020 in Veike-Marja – it was 1.3 magnitude strong at the time.
An earthquake was recorded in Latvia in 2004. On September 22, 2004, the State Geological Survey concluded that three earthquakes had been detected in Latvia. Their strength is just over three on the Richter scale. Such information has been provided by Estonian seismologists because Latvia does not have equipment for measuring underground shocks.
Maris Seglins, Director of the State Geological Survey (DGS), informed the Independent that the epicenter of all three earthquakes was underground at a depth of 10 kilometers in the Kaliningrad region near the Polish border. In Kaliningrad, the earthquake shocks exceeded 5 on the Richter scale.
The earthquake was “natural” and there is no basis for rumors that the underground shocks were caused by military tests. “The epicenter of the earthquake was deep underground in a layer of granite. That’s why the earthquake waves hit us and even Estonia.
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