Earthquake forces evacuation of 1,600 pupils from Albacete schools
Monday, December 4, 2017 @ 11:24 PM
An earthquake registering 4 on the Richter scale was recorded in Caudete (Albacete) this morning, forcing local authorities to evacuate around 1,600 pupils from local schools. The school buildings are now being checked out by specialists from the regional emergency services.
Pedro Antonio Ruiz Santos, member of parliament for Albacete, explained that classes had been cancelled for over a thousand primary and secondary school pupils at Caudete's four schools, and for another 500+ students at the Pintor Rafael Requena sixth form college.
Ruiz Santos, who went personally to Caudete to assess the earthquake damage for himself, said that in the end it had been "little more than a scare" as the epicentre was 12 km below the earth's surface, meaning that the quake had caused little surface damage, despite registering 4 on the Richter scale, "not insignificant", as he pointed out.
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