Near Greenland there was a strong earthquake

11 September 2017, 11:02 | The Company
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The earthquake was felt 825 kilometers southeast of the city of Qaqortoq at the southern tip of Greenland. Its magnitude was 5.6 on the Richter scale.

As reported by the Altai-Sayan branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences, referring to the operational processing data of the branch office, the epicenter fixed with coordinates 57. 40 degrees north latitude and -33. 11 degrees west longitude. The epicenter was 961 km south-west of Reykjavik.



According to the intensity of concussions in the epicenter, the earthquake is estimated as "very strong".

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, as of Sunday evening, September 10, victims of the earthquake in Mexico have already become 90 people. Only in the state of Oaxaca the number of victims increased from 46 to 71.

As the governor of the state said at the meeting of the crisis headquarters, there is no official confirmation of this figure yet, but in the state of Chiapas there are 15 dead. In the state of Tabasco - four, - he explained.




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