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All Shook Up in Uterga

CJ Williams

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Via Turonense (1995)
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Camino Aragonés (2000)
Nah, not really... but there have been a number of small earthquakes on the Camino in the Sierra de Perdón and Uterga over the past week and a half. I've translated the most relevant paragraphs of the report that appeared in the local press over the weekend, and linked to the original article below my translation for folks who can read Spanish.

Increased seismic activity has been registered around the mountains of El Perdón. After a week in which 14 small tremors were registered, up to 7 earthquakes of greater magnitude were recorded this past Thursday alone. The strongest of the series with its epicenter in Uterga, measured 2.4 degrees on the Richter scale, and took place at 14.27 hours. In total there have been 21 tremors in 8 days, since 14 February.

All the earthquakes have taken place within five villages. Uterga takes the prize with 11 earthquakes, followed by Adiós, Biurrún and Salinas de Pamplona, with 3 each, and Legarda with another...

"In intraplate areas (within continents, where there is no clash of plates, but faults), and in the basin of Pamplona and the Sierra del Perdon (under which the Pamplona fault line passes), inherited geological structures are inseparable from water and weather conditions, " says Antonio Aretxabala, geologist and professor at the University of Navarra and member of the College of Geologists. He points to the heavy rains that have lately saturated soil water as possible causes of earthquakes, in line with the theory of hidroseismicity. Rainfall in Pamplona has reached 475 liters per square meter of water in the past month alone, nearly two-thirds of what normally falls in an entire year.

Local residents said this week that they have not felt the earthquakes. Aretxabala says that this is "generally normal". "They have been small, and could even be confused with the nearby quarry blasting that takes place in places like Alaiz or Echauri -Tiebas. They've been on that level."


So nothing to be concerned about, really. Just presenting it as a curiousity. But if you feels some shaking out on the Camino between Pamplona and Puente in the future, you'll know it's because we're on a fault line. 8) Here's the link to the original article:

http://www.diariodenavarra.es/notic...nta_actividad_sismica_perdon_108619_1008.html
 
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I stayed a night in Uterga last year- had a very pleasant evening. Had no idea it might be an earthquake-prone place!
Margaret
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I was surprised to learn this too the first time an earthquake rattled my windows and shook me from my sleep one night 14 years ago. Then some three years ago I was in my kitchen and everything started shaking. A good shake it was too, cause live on the 6th floor! It gave me quite a start. So these have been small ones, but we can get some pretty good ones from time to time.
 
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