In the vicinity of the country’s earthquake capital Loppersum there has been another earthquake. In the middle of the night, an earthquake was measured in the hamlet of Startenhuizen with a magnitude of 2.3 on the Richter scale.
It doesn’t seem to stop in the province of Groningen, because last night’s earthquake was already the third (!) In a week.
Recent earthquake in the Netherlands: on 2020-07-19 at 02:07:52 UTC (04:07:52 NL) found at #Startenhuizen a #earthquake place with a magnitude of 2.3 (reviewed). https://t.co/x8GolaWKgY pic.twitter.com/9GFVctaChh
– KNMI (@KNMI) July 19, 2020
Last Tuesday, the affected province even experienced the worst earthquake in the Netherlands this year. Then there was an earthquake with a magnitude of 2.7 in Loppersum.
In the meantime, more than 800 reports of damage have already been received from Groningen, the most recent earthquake not even added to that.