The mysterious earthquake swarm near Parma, Italy- 45 tremors over 48 hours

September 10, 2011 – ITALY – Parma, Italy has been rattled by 45 tremors over the last 48 hours and the tremors are incessant. The region is not typically known for high seismic activity. Northern Italy was shaken by a magnitude 5.2 earthquake in December of 2008. The earthquake occurred at a depth of around 28km. The earthquake was followed by a second tremor of similar magnitude. The quake struck near the city of Parma, north of Bologna, but was felt in cities from Milan to Florence. The Star said: “Train services were briefly interrupted on some lines and there was minor damage to some buildings, including two churches. Startled Italians jammed telephone lines after the initial quake at 4.25 p.m. (1525 GMT) that was unusually strong for northern Italy and was felt from the financial capital Milan to Florence to Trieste. “There is some anguish, a lot of fear … In the town hall itself, there was a lot of panic,” said Alberto Pazzoni, mayor of Traversetolo, a town just outside Parma and near the quake’s epicenter.”    + Lista Terremoti

Parma lies in the Po Valley compression zone. Geological change is stirring across this region of northern Italy. The Po Valley is often regarded as a syncline, or dip in the crust due to compression at the edges. Regardless of whether this concept accurately describes its geology, the valley is manifestly a sediment-filled trough, or virtual syncline, continuous with the deeps of the Adriatic Sea. The gradual subsidence of the Po Valley (including that of Venice) and the folding of the mountains of eastern Italy have been explained by discovery through seismic wave analysis of the “Apennine Subduction System.” Along the Adriatic side of Italy the floor of the Adriatic Sea—now the “Adriatic lithosphere” or the “Adriatic plate,” a term (or terms) whose precise meaning is the subject of ongoing research—is dipping under the slab on which the Apennines have been folded by compressional forces. Subduction is a process that occurs in the Earth’s mantle, separated from the Earth’s crust by the Mohorovičić discontinuity, or Moho, a roughly spherical natural boundary 5–10 km deep. –Wikipedia

Earthquake Swarms: Seismic swarms are now breaking out across the planet. Canary Islands, El Hierro (4,200 + quakes), along the Czech-German border (10,000 + quakes) and now northern Italy. In addition, as we noted in an earlier post, more activity is also occurring at the planet’s magma plumes. -The Extinction Protocol