Malaga province has been rattled by three minor earthquakes, with the wet weather partly to blame.
The tremors occurred in the town of Gaucin, an inland municipality that is popular among British tourists and expats.
According to the National Geographic Institute, they measured 2.5, 2.4 and 2.3 on the Richter scale.
They took place at 2.34pm, 4.50pm and 4.55pm respectively.
In statements to Europa Press, the town’s mayor, Pedro Godino, explained that these tremors could be associated with underground water movements.
He said: ‘It seems that it was a hydroseismic event caused by some underground movement of water and so on, with so much rain and such, and it must have caused some cracks and that’s what caused the seismic movement..
‘But in principle as far as I know, and nobody has told me otherwise, there has been no personal damage obviously nor material damage.’
Whole of Andalucia on alert Thursday
The whole of Andalucia will remain on some form of weather alert on Thursday, Aemet has confirmed.
While conditions will not be as severe as Wednesday, local authorities are warning of flooding due to the ground being extremely saturated following weeks of consistent rain.
The west of Andalucia, including Huelva, Sevilla, Cadiz provinces will be covered by a yellow alert for wind only, with maximum gusts of 80km/hr.
The same alert is in place on the coast of Granada and in its Sierra Nevada and Alpujarra regions.
In Malaga, the Costa del Sol, Guadalhorce Valley and Ronda continue to be on a yellow alert for heavy rainfall on Thursday, plus strong winds of up to 70km/hr.
Elsewhere, the whole of Almeria is under a more serious orange warning for strong winds of up to 90km/hr until 9pm on Thursday.
An identical alert is in place for the southern half of Cordoba province, majority of Jaen province and the Guadix and Baza region of Granada.
At sea, the waters off the coast of the Axarquia, Granada’s Costa Tropical and the whole of Almeria are under an orange alert for tough conditions.
Aemet is warning of 75km/hr winds and waves of up to five metres.
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