The geographical Institute confirms that the earthquake was 4.9 degrees after a mistake that downgraded 4.6 the Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN) has confirmed that the earthquake that occurred this morning in El Hierro at 10:59 hours (local) had a magnitude of 4.9 degrees on the Richter scale, the largest registered in the island since the beginning of this process sismovolcanico, in the summer of 2011.
According to Canarias7, for a few hours, IGN had reduced the magnitude of the shock on its website to 4.6 degrees, using a different calculation method (Mw: magnitude time), but has finally decided to keep the 4.9 degrees obtained with the same method that has been pursuing so far in the seismic series of El Hierro (mbLg: magnitude from the amplitude of the Lg phase), as they have explained the General direction of Canary emergency sources.



Thought IGN had reduced the magnitude but now they have reinstated the 4.9