‘Rubble in the streets’ Spain struck by MAJOR EARTHQUAKE measuring 6.3 on Richter scale

Monday, January 25, 2016
By Paul Martin

TOURIST hotspot Malaga has been hit by a major earthquake after a 6.3 magnitude tremor struck in the middle of the sea.

By SCOTT CAMPBELL
Express.co.uk
Mon, Jan 25, 2016

Dramatic images from the aftermath showed rubble strewn across the street as hundreds of households reeled from the damage caused to their properties.

The earthquake hit about 100 miles south-east of the Spanish coast with a depth of 20 miles, the US Geological Survey said.

But the reverberations would have been felt inland in Southern Spain and Morocco, according to official charts.

The shallow quake hit at 4:22am UK time almost 40 miles north of the Moroccan city of Al Hoceima and 100 miles south of Gibraltar.

It was followed by a 5.3-magnitude tremor.

Holidaymaker Lisa Dando said she was woken this morning to violent shakes as a result of the earthquake.

She told Express.co.uk: “It woke us up at 4.30 is as it shot my tablet of the bedside cabinet.

“Then the whole hotel shook from side to side for few minutes. The shutters were rattling.”

Rick Waterford, 35, from London, who is on holiday with his family in Mijas Costa near Fuengirola, said: “The wardrobe doors banged like crazy for around 20 seconds and the bed and windows were shaking.

“I knew immediately it was an earthquake because friends here last week mentioned there had been a smaller quake.

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