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<\/p>\nAt least three people have been lightly injured and a number of buildings damaged when an earthquake rocked southern Spain, local officials say.<\/p>\n
The epicentre of the magnitude 4.8 tremor on Tuesday morning was about 10km (six miles) south of the historic city of Granada, said the country’s National Geographic Institute (IGN).<\/p>\n
Many local residents were seen rushing out of their homes into the streets, fearing strong aftershocks. A number of vehicles were damaged by falling debris. Some museums, administrative buildings and sports centres have been forced to close.<\/p>\n
The IGN said it was the latest in a series of very shallow tremors in the area that started last Friday and were widely felt.<\/p>\n
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A number of vehicles were damaged by falling debris in the latest earthquake [AFP via Getty Images]<\/p>\n
The tremor struck at 10:37 local time (08:37 GMT) near the town of Alhend\u00edn, the IGN said. It was recorded at the depth of under 10km.<\/p>\n
Alfonso Malpica said he felt his ground floor flat in Granada shaking in the morning.<\/p>\n
He told Spain’s El Pa\u00eds newspaper that the quake was “stronger than the ones that happen from time to time, the ones we’re used to”.<\/p>\n
“Everything came crashing down. It was terrifying,” Cristina Ruiz Lopez, a lab worker who was at a supermarket in Granada, was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n
Granada’s famous Alhambra palace – a Unesco World Heritage Site of medieval Islamic architecture – “will remain closed this afternoon”, the site administrators said.<\/p>\n
It added that its team would “assess the situation” following the latest quake. The palace is visited every year by millions of tourists from around the world.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Granada’s metro network said it was reducing the speed of its trains to 30km\/h (19mph) for “safety reasons” and warned that this may cause delays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least three people have been lightly injured and a number of buildings damaged when an earthquake rocked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27990,27966,27989,17],"class_list":["post-72243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-administrative-buildings","tag-falling-debris","tag-national-geographic-institute","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}