A POPULAR vacationer hotspot favoured by Brits has been hit by its strongest earthquake in 60 years.
Holidaymakers in Gran Canaria have been left terrified after the area was rumbled by the seismic tremor at 7.20pm native time tonight, measuring 3.8 on the Richter scale.
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The shaking was felt in 14 of the Canary island’s 21 municipalities, with seismologists calling it the fiercest in 60 years.
Itahiza Dominguez, the Canary Islands Director for the Nationwide Geographic Institute, informed media it was the strongest earthquake detected in Gran Canaria in at the least 60 years.
Its epicentre was Santa Maria de Guia within the north of the island, though subsequent reviews described it as being round 13 miles off its north-west coast.
The earthquake is known to have occurred at a depth of 12.5 miles underneath the earth‘s floor.
However there have been no rapid reviews of any casualties or structural injury.
Tuesday’s earthquake was initially recorded as measuring 4.1, earlier than being revised.
Nevertheless, aftershocks haven’t been dominated out.
A spokesman for a regional government-run emergency response coordination centre confirmed: “An earthquake has been registered within the north coast of Gran Canaria that has been felt in 14 of the island’s 21 municipalities.
“A number of 999 calls have been obtained. There aren’t any reviews of any casualties or main incidents at the moment.”
