Italy shakes today's earthquakes in Pisa and Cosenza: is the heat involved? The INGV's response.

After the magnitude 4.7 earthquake recorded last Friday in the Campi Flegrei area (Naples), Italy trembled again today. This morning, at 10:15 a.m., the INGV reported a magnitude 4.3 earthquake in the Pisa area; then, in the afternoon, shortly after 15 p.m., another, with a magnitude 3.5, struck in Celico, between Cosenza and Rende. Fear has spread among residents in both Tuscany and Calabria. However, these events are unrelated.  

Carlo Meletti, a seismologist at the Pisa branch of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), explained this to Adnkronos. "In Pisa, we had a seismic swarm with about ten aftershocks, all smaller than the main event, except for one tremor of more than 3 magnitude recorded around 13 p.m. There could be more in the coming hours, but the situation is under control. These earthquakes are linked to faults moving along the Tyrrhenian coast of Tuscany, which have also produced earthquakes with a magnitude greater than 4 in the past, such as in 1984 and 2003," the expert said, specifying that there is no connection to the Cosenza earthquake: "It's another world. Here, there is an even more significant historical seismicity, but the two epicenters are geographically too distant."  

Nor is there any connection with the heat wave, which has been causing record temperatures across Italy these days. Research is rife online about a possible connection between these phenomena: "There is no connection with today's earthquakes. These events occur at depths of kilometers, which have nothing to do with what happens on the surface."  

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(Adnkronos)

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