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Multiple Earthquakes in a perfect grid pattern on the island of La Palma? - Stone - 10-24-2021
Perhaps this is perfectly natural? I have no experience in either seismology or volcanology and won't attempt to explain this.
But it does make one scratch one's head in bewilderment, just a little.
The following screenshot is from the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) website [zoomed in on the Island of La Palma], taken just moments ago. It shows earthquake activity over the last forty-eight hours on the island of La Palma, whose Cumbre Vieja volcano erupted on September 19th, 2021.
![[Image: Capture.png]](https://i.postimg.cc/vmtpz48g/Capture.png)
Perfect grid like pattern.
For contrast, here is a cluster of several earthquakes that have occurred on the island of Crete, also in the last forty-eight hours, screenshot taken from the same website just moments ago:
For contrast, here is a cluster of several earthquakes that have occurred on the island of Crete, also in the last forty-eight hours, screenshot taken from the same website just moments ago:
![[Image: Capture.png]](https://i.postimg.cc/HxH8qhCv/Capture.png)
This activity has the clustered pattern we are more used to.
Maybe the La Palma island earthquakes are more modern, a new order of earthquakes?