Airport roof collapses when Spain hit a strong earthquake

Spain was shaken only a few hours after the country was destroyed by falling floods and heavy rain, by an earthquake of 5.3 magnitude.

The earthquake met southern Spain, including the popular tourist hotspots Costa del Sol and Alicante early Monday morning.

Spain's National Geographic Institute (IGN) recorded the quake in front of Cabo de Gata on the Almeria coast at 7.13 a.m. Cabo de Gata is the largest protected coastal area in the Andalusia region.

With its maximum intensity, the earthquake in the European macrosesmik scale, which according to IGN has nine levels, reached IV-V or moderately to strong.

So far, eighteen aftershocks have been recorded, whereby, according to the latest IGN report, only five minutes after the earthquake in the amount of 3.4 in size measures and only occurred five minutes after the earthquake.

The earthquake occurred at a depth of almost two miles below sea level about 19 miles off the coast and was felt in hundreds of cities and villages in Andalusia and in the Levante region of the country, according to the IGN and the local media.

An airport roof collapsed in Almeria after the quake rattled hundreds of cities, whereby a car exhibition space was also damaged by trembling.

Almeria airport roof, which was damaged by the earthquake (solarpix.com)

An airport worker told the local media: “We heard some noises one after the other, and then a loud bang and a large cloud of dust appeared.

“It was a real fear for us. There were airport workers with their first coffee of the day, but luckily nobody was injured.”

The Spanish newspaper El País reported that Granada, Malaga and Jaen were among the hardest areas together with Murcia, Alicante and Albacete in the east.

A Toyota showroom was damaged in Huercal de Almeria. A picture showed the ceiling when it was taped.

The quake came only one day after heavy rain brought chaos on streets, companies and vacation plans in large parts of the northeast of Spain.

The Spanish weather forecast Aemet published serious storm warnings for Huesca, Teruel and Zaragoza, Barcelona, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona as well as Castellón.

The earthquake hit around 7 a.m. around 7 a.m. around 7 a.m. around 7 a.m. on Monday (USGS).

Near Barcelona, 71 patients had to evacuate the regional hospital in Penedès when streets in Catalonia turned into rivers after the floods on Saturday.

In Kubellen, a city 30 miles from Barcelona, a witness to see a woman and a child of floods claimed after they had fallen in the swollen Foix river.

Firefighters hurried to the river overnight, with underwater units, helicopters and drone teams searched for the area.

According to Aemet on Saturday in Barcelona, at least 155 mm rain fell in just two or three hours. 97 mm of rain was found in Navarra. Heavy rain was also recorded in Zaragoza and Girona.

The earthquake came only one day after Spain was beaten by heavy rain and fall floods (Catalonia firefighters)

Film material showed vehicles that are trapped under cloudy water, with some vehicles being swept away by rivers that flow along the streets.

A video captured cars that drift along the swollen El Cardener River after it burst its banks, while others were seen completely.

Rosa Montserrat Fonoll, Mayor of Kubellen, said: “I've never seen anything like this in Cubella.” She added that 200 cubic meters flowed through the city per second.