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GRANADA: Granada’s treasured Alhambra palace shut with minor damage on Tuesday (Aug 19) after a second major earthquake in days sent debris falling and injured three people<\/a> in the Spanish city, authorities said.<\/p>\n

The 4.8-magnitude earthquake took place at around 10:38am (4:38pm, Singapore time) with its epicentre in the town of Alhendin, 10 kilometres (six miles) south of Granada, according to the National Geographical Institute.<\/p>\n

It was the strongest in a series of earthquakes to hit the southern region on Tuesday morning, sending residents rushing out of buildings and into the streets.<\/p>\n

The Alhambra complex, a UNESCO-listed jewel of medieval Islamic architecture which welcomed 2.7 million visitors last year, closed for the rest of the day as a precaution.<\/p>\n

A first inspection found no “significant structural damage” or a “risk of collapse”, said Antonio Sanz, the Andalusia region’s top emergencies official.<\/p>\n

But there were “very localised situations” of minor damage to “non-structural elements”, including battlements, plasterwork and decorative elements, he told an evening press briefing.<\/p>\n

“That must be taken into account in terms of visitor safety, but not from the point of view of risk to our incredibly rich heritage,” said Sanz.<\/p>\n

Emergency services said they received more than 500 calls in Granada reporting cracks, falling debris and other earthquake-related incidents, including a dozen requests for medical assistance, mostly for anxiety attacks.<\/p>\n

Three people were lightly injured, including a girl who was taken to hospital, said Sanz, who ruled out “very serious structural damage” to homes which “held up well”.<\/p>\n

Videos posted on social media showed debris strewn on the street, including in the historic centre near the Alhambra, and some damage to cars in the popular tourist city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GRANADA: Granada’s treasured Alhambra palace shut with minor damage on Tuesday (Aug 19) after a second major earthquake…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12331,17],"class_list":["post-72767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-granada","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72767","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=72767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}