Overview

• A series of 12 earthquakes ranging from magnitude 1.3 to 3.6 struck off the southern Alicante coast between Monday night and early Tuesday.
• The strongest tremor reached magnitude 3.6 at a 2 km depth offshore Santa Pola and was felt in Torrevieja, Elx, Elda and Guardamar del Segura.
• Seismic activity has since tapered with no damage or injuries reported in affected municipalities.
• MeteOrihuela characterizes the sequence as a normal high-seismicity swarm while Proyecto Mastral views most events as aftershocks of the mainshock.
• Authorities have maintained heightened monitoring along the Eurasian–African plate boundary to track ongoing low-magnitude activity in this tectonically active region.