Earthquakes, 2022 data: Sardinia is the region least at risk in Italy
The tremors recorded throughout the country in 2022 are 16,302, with an average of 44 per day, almost one every half hourPer restare aggiornato entra nel nostro canale Whatsapp
Sardinia is confirmed, also in 2022 , as the Region with the fewest earthquakes in Italy .
There were 16,302 earthquakes recorded last year in Italy and in the neighboring areas by the National Seismic Network: an average of 44 tremors a day , almost one every half hour . The data are those of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (Ingv).
The most important seismic sequence took place in the Marche region , off the coast of Pesaro: it started on the morning of November 9 with two earthquakes of magnitude 5.5 and 5.2, in less than two months it counted about 740 events .
As in 2021, the strongest earthquakes were located outside the Italian territory or at sea . Seismic events of magnitude 5.0 or greater occurred in Algeria , Bosnia and the Gulf of Policastro in the Tyrrhenian Sea . The 2022 numbers are slightly higher than those of 2021, stable at around 16,000 since 2019 . Instead, they are down compared to the previous years , 2016, 2017 and 2018, remembered for the seismic sequence in central Italy that began on 24 August 2016 ( Amatrice-Norcia Visso ).
On 13 October 2022 in Calabria , on the Ionian coast in the province of Catanzaro , the strongest earthquake of the year was recorded, with a magnitude of 4.3. Sicily , on the other hand, is the Region that has recorded the most earthquakes with a magnitude equal to or greater than 2.0: 184. If we also count the very small ones of 2.0, the primacy would be conditioned by the density of the seismic network and would go to Marche and Umbria .
(Unioneonline/vf)