31 Mar, 2017 @ 15:15
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Double tsunami threat for Costa del Sol as experts warn of future earthquake off north-east of Morocco

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tsunamiA TSUNAMI could hit the Costa del Sol if an earthquake occurs off the north-east coast of Morocco, experts have claimed. 

It comes after a documentary has claimed it is only a matter of time before a mammoth wave will strike the Gulf of Cadiz, which sits on a major plate boundary.

The new threat, revealed in a report by Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, places Marbella, Granada and Malaga under ‘serious threat’.

The monster wave would be caused by a quake striking the Alboran sea, north-east of Morocco, which is currently being squeezed between the Iberian and African tectonic plates.

The building pressure would lead to a fault, triggering an earthquake and setting off a massive wave that would head straight to the coast.

The report says the region would face a 2/5 danger level, meaning there is a ‘severe land threat with maximum wave elevations.’

“In this area, especially on the coast of Granada, maximum wave elevations can locally exceed 1m,” the report states.

It details that the areas of Malaga and Granada would face a ‘land threat’ with around one metre waves.

 

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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