British seismologist: In Peru earthquake 8 less victims than in Albania

The 6.4-magnitude quake since the early hours of Tuesday's morning felt across South Eastern Europe, including in northern Macedonia and Bosnia.

Earthquakes come in groupings or sequences that may seem to be increasing over a short period of time”, says Brian Baptiste, a seismologist from the British Center for Geological Studies.

“A major earthquake could cause a series of smaller quakes and even a slightly larger earthquake in the area where earthquakes occurred, Baptie says of the British picture “Daily Mail”.

After the 6.4-strong earthquake, Albania was hit by 500 quakes, 21 of them had been strong and had felt an 11-hour period, experts said.

Baptiste says that small earthquakes are normal after a major earthquake. There was a series of smaller earthquakes in Italy after the 6.1 earthquake and 6.2 followed by an earthquake greater 6.5 three months later.” There have been 11,700 measured earthquakes so far in 2019, but very few have had over 5.0 large.

He says the size of an earthquake does not necessarily have a direct connection with the number of victims, as it depends on where the quake's epidera is.

“In the case of the earthquake in Albania, its epicentre near Durres and 50 miles south of the capital of Sarajevo, and even though the size was 6.4 more people died in Albania than in the 8-magnitude earthquake in Peru in May where two persons --” died, says British seismologist.

The number of earthquakes has not increased. We're looking at a cluster effect where secondary earthquakes are caused by an initial, larger earthquake and now it seems like there's been an increase of them,” said Baptiste.

An increase in the number of earthquakes compared to 1950 has been observed in the area, but Dr Baptiste says that this is due to more sophisticated measurements.

Earthquakes occur throughout the globe mainly in response to the stresses applied on earth's surface, since the dense tectonic plates of the planet slide through a weaker ashenosphere beneath it.

They do not all move in the same direction and often fight. This creates huge amounts of pressure between the two plates. Finally, this pressure causes one plaque to be placed on or below.

Baptist seismologist says that there will have to be a marked change in the number of earthquakes there will have to be a significant tectonic change in the area where the fluctuations have crashed and that at the moment “there are no signs that there is a 48x1 change going on.