A 4.8 magnitude earthquake interrupted an editorial meeting in Granada, rattling windows and shifting furniture. The journalist recounted feeling the ground rumble for about 10 seconds, describing the sound as the earth 'groaning'.
His colleagues, wide-eyed, later told him he had turned pale with fear. They joked that it wasn't a major quake and that the meeting hadn't been recorded.
“"The next one might be a tsunami."
This incident occurred less than three days after a magnitude 5 tremor shook the city on August 15, the largest since 1954. The journalist had ironically missed that one while stranded in Sicily due to a volcanic eruption forcing the airport to shut down.
The eruption of Mount Etna, Europe's tallest and most active volcano, ruined holiday plans for tens of thousands. Upon finally returning to Granada, the journalist experienced another strong earthquake, prompting his editor to joke about him 'working somewhere else'.
