Storms and heavy rain continue to batter the Iberian Peninsula this winter, and this week Andalusia is the epicenter of the storms. Provinces like Seville, Cádiz, and Córdoba are the hardest hit by the abundant rainfall caused by Storm [name missing]. Leonardowith exceptional rainfall totals. The worst affected area was the municipality of Grazalema, in Cádiz, where almost 600 liters per square meter fell in just 24 hours on Wednesday. This record figure for the area is very similar to the rainfall recorded during the historic and tragic DANA storm of October 2014 in Valencia. And all that water is also having consequences for the subsoil. Grazalema is located at an altitude of over 800 meters in the Sierra de Cádiz mountains, a geographically exposed area that is very rainy and receives nearly 2,000 liters per square meter annually. The problem is that this amount of rain, which usually falls over an entire year, has already been exceeded between January and the first days of February. This exceptional rainfall has completely saturated the subsoil. The ground can no longer absorb any more water, which is gushing out uncontrollably everywhere, even through electrical outlets, toilets, and walls of houses. And a phenomenon little known until now has occurred: hydroseisms.

He Wednesday's earthquake off the coast of Russia It is the sixth most intense earthquake ever recorded in the world. With a magnitude of 8.8, one of the highest in history, it is still behind another that occurred in the same Russian region of Kamchatka in 1952, which was magnitude 9. The strongest in history (since records began) is the magnitude 9.5 that occurred in Chile in 1951, with waves reaching up to 10 meters in some places. This Wednesday, however, waves did not exceed 4 meters on the Russian coast.

An 8.8-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula triggered a tsunami on Wednesday, putting several Pacific Ocean countries on alert for several hours, including Japan, the US territories of Hawaii and Alaska, China, and Canada. At least two million people received evacuation orders in Japan early Tuesday morning, and evacuations were also ordered in areas of Hawaii, where waves of 1.2 meters were already recorded, and along the US west coast. The tsunami reached the coast of California, where the tide rose one meter above normal. But by early afternoon, the alert had been lifted in virtually all territories that feared damage.

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar on Friday, according to US emergency services. Authorities in the country, a military junta that has been waging a civil war since its coup d'état four years ago, has not reported any damage or injuries. But the earthquake was even heard in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, where hundreds of people fled buildings amid panic, according to Reuters. A building under construction collapsed in the Thai capital, leaving 43 workers trapped in the rubble.

The last time there was an active volcano in Spain was in 1971 on the island of La Palma. That is until this Sunday at 15.12 h, when, on the same island, the earth started to shake, there was a big explosion, a large column of smoke rose and the volcano began to shoot lava at high speed over a pine forest. The eruption at Cumbre Vieja comes after a week in which 25,000 earthquakes have been detected in the area, which began at a depth of 20 kilometres but have been progressively rising to the surface, to the point that they have raised the island about 15 centimetres. So far, around 5,000 people have had to be evacuated on an island of around 80,000 inhabitants.