Magnitude 6 earthquake registered in Atlantic between Cape Verde and Brazil 16 May 2011
The United States Geological Survey revealed Sunday afternoon that an earthquake measuring 6 on the Richter scale took place between the Brazilian coast and the archipelago of Cape Verde.
The earthquake took place at approximately noon local time and had its epicenter in the mid-Atlantic ridge, 1,624 kilometers from Cape Verde and 1,277 kilometers from the city of Natal, on the northeastern Brazilian coast.
The American institute, headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, informed that the earthquake took place at a depth of 10 kilometers below the ocean floor.
According to Rio Grande do Norte Federal University in Brazil, the type of movement that occurred in the earthquake would not result in the formation of a tsunami. “In order to generate a tsunami, movement has to be vertical, and sea water is abruptly pushed upwards or pulled down, and this is not what happened,” according to the coordinator of the university’s seismological laboratory, Joaquim Mendes.
by Renato Oliveira
When I was a high school student I've learned that Brazil was a country that was less probable to have an earthquake... tsunami was almost impossible... Now, we can see the nature completely "crazy" and maybe, unfortunately that kind of natural disaster can occur in Brazil... I really hope it won't never take place here, but I don't know anything. What I've learned in my high school time can be not truth anymore... God don't allow this and protect us...
ResponderExcluirWe have to be prepare because we don't know anymore if Brasil is "insento" (I don't this in english) of this nature disasters!
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