The population of Brava Island, Cape Verde, felt a new earthquake yesterday, around two weeks after a seismic crisis in the area, the president of Cape Verdean Civil Protection, Domingos Tavares, told Lusa.
According to information from the National Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics (INMG), “there was a seismic shock on Brava Island and this time it was felt more than the other earthquake”, said the official.
For now, there is no record of damage, he added, noting that civil protection mechanisms at national and local level are in readiness.
The president of the municipality of Brava, Francisco Tavares, told Lusa that he felt a main earthquake, with “a reasonable intensity”, but that small tremors had already been felt during the morning.
Lusa contacted INMG, which sent information about the magnitude of the earthquake for later. The last crisis occurred with an earthquake on October 30th that caused some damage to homes, roofs and other structures falling and causing one injury, as well as opening cracks.
The situation led families to choose to sleep on the street in the early hours of October 31st, but, during the day, the environment returned to normal, with the resurgence of the tremors.
Seismic crises are part of the history of the island, which is located in the southernmost part of the archipelago, located 30 kilometers west of the volcano on the island of Fogo, which last erupted in 2014.
