Magnitude 5.3 earthquake kills at least 4 in Spain

Reuters/YahooNews ^ | 5/11/11

[Kartographer]

At least four people were killed when a 5.3 magnitude earthquake hit the small town of Lorca in the southern Spanish region of Murcia Wednesday, the town's mayor said in a radio interview.

[Kartographer]

Looks like more than rain is falling in Spain!

[Uncle Ike]

With all of the 7, 8, and 9 magnitude quakes in the South Pacific Rim, we tend to lose track of the fact that, in the right circumstances, even mag-5 shakes can be pretty devastating...

[Empireoftheatom48]

Some guy predicted a large earthquake in Rome for today. Just a little off!!

[Viiksitimali]

http://www.rtve.es/noticias/directo-la-1/

[null and void]

The day is young.

[ohioWfan]

Not in Rome. :)

[P-Marlowe]

A 5.3 Earthquake would not even knock over dishes in California. They must have some pretty lousy building codes in Spain.

[null and void]

Is it tomorrow there already? I’ve got some serious drinkin’ to catch up on...

[eak3]

yeah the prediction was a long long time ago too.. I got a bit spooked when I heard of these earthquakes lol.

[HollyB]

Actually Bendandi's prediction was misinterpreted. According to an institute in Italy, the location was never predicted and there were about 5 days in May discussed. She thought that maybe the 11th was focussed on since so many tragedies have occurred on the 11th. Anyway, the press focused on that day and on Rome and it spiraled bit over the deep end.

I'll try and locate the exact information.

[ohioWfan]

LOL! Not quite. It’s just evening, but you’d better get started......

[pgkdan]

Still waiting for the one in Rome. /sarc

[Godzilla]

This was a very shallow quake - can be very vicious at the epicenter without attenuation by depth.