EARTHQUAKE: About 50 kilometers outside Bremanger, the earthquake started on Wednesday morning.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.9 was recorded on Sunnmøre on Wednesday. – Strong earthquake on a Norwegian scale, says a seismologist.
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– It was very powerful. The most powerful thing I have ever known. I thought someone drove into the house, says Linda Iren Breivik from Volda.
The tremor was also felt in the Ålesund area.
– I was lying in bed at home with flu, says a woman in her 50s on the island of Giske.
– Suddenly I felt that the bed shook violently. It was as if someone grabbed the bed and shook it. It lasted several seconds, says the woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, to VG.
– I managed to sit up and orient myself a bit and think what it could be. But there were no large cars nearby and no gusts of wind, so then there were only earthquakes left.
– Were you afraid?
– No, it wasn’t that long ago that there was an earthquake here.
VG has received a number of tips that the earthquake is noticeable both in Volda, Hareid, Stad, Bremanger, Hyllestad, Kinn and Førde.
Professor of seismology seismology Seismology is the study of earthquakes and related phenomena, such as radiological or sonar wave movements., Mathilde Sørensen, says that the earthquake was registered at a magnitude of 3.9.
– The earthquake was registered 50 kilometers from the coast in Bremanger, near Florø in Vestland county.
The earthquake started on 12.02 and has been registered over a large area.
– People have probably noticed this over a fairly large area in both Vestland and Sunnmøre. It is a fairly powerful earthquake by Norwegian standards.
Sørensen says there is no danger to human life, but that you feel the quake well if you live along the coast in Western Norway and in Sunnmøre.
– There will probably be some smaller aftershocks, but the worst earthquake has probably already happened, although you can never be sure.
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Published: 29.11.23 at 12:25 p.m
Updated: 29.11.23 at 12:47 p.m
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