Furniture moved 30 cm in powerful earthquake in eight years – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): The residents of Longyearbyen must be prepared for a restless night and night with aftershocks after the most powerful earthquake recorded in Svalbard in eight years.

In 2008, a quake measured at 6.2 in the ocean 140 kilometers from Longyearbyen.

The time 12.32 recorded earthquake observatory Norsar a quake to 5.3 in the same direction and distance – 126 kilometers south / southeast of Longyearbyen, about 10 kilometers below the seabed in Storfjorden by Edgeøya.

Svalbardposten registered movements inside their offices, and an inhabitant newspaper spoke with say that the chairs moved 20 to 30 centimeters in his apartment.

Anyone who was at work at the Industrial built in Longyearbyen was evacuated for a period at midday today. Where marked the two quakes with a half minute intervals.

same time reminding management at Norsar that current Norwegian earthquake map is more than 15 years old – and that there is a desperate need for updating a new mapping where earthquakes frames – and how it affects – in Norwegian territories.

– We have a clear impression that there has been frequent aftershocks further north and in the waters around Svalbard in recent years, says Managing. Director Anne Lycke in Norsar Dagbladet .

By no later than Easter it was a quake to 4.0 in Finland, as more marked east Finnmark.

– such jobs will require at least two professionals in eighteen months plus technical kotsnader, maybe seven or eight milliobner money to get made a oippdatert map. So this is certainly a reminder to the Directorate for Civil Protection, oil industry, building industry and railway builders that it is time to get started with a splise teams, says Norsar boss.
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