It is the convergence movement between the northern part of Sicily and the southern part of the Tyrrhenian Sea who triggered the compressive earthquake which at 4.19 pm on February 7, 2025 shaken the Aeolian islands with a magnitude of 4.8. The president of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Carlo Doglioni, explains this.
“The affected area is located in a band that runs from the east to the west, roughly from Ustica to the Aeolian, which is notoriously an area in which the north part of Sicily is converging with the southern part of the Tyrrhenian Sea by generating compressive earthquakes,” he says Doglioni.
All types of bond with the recent earthquakes of Santorini is excluded, which instead fall into a completely distinct and separate geodynamic context.
The event detected, as observed the director of the Etna Observatory of Catania Stefano Branca, was of medium intensity and depth, in line with the seismic activity of the affected area.
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