Campo Nell’Elba, on the Italian island of Elba, reported on Facebook that a nearby monitoring station “captured a seismic and acoustic event felt by everyone” on the French island.
The president of Tuscany’s regional government, Eugenio Giani, initially announced an earthquake before backing off after the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) rejected the hypothesis. For its part, the Italian Air Force told Eugenio Giani that it was not involved in any way.
Eugenio Giani wrote on social media: “The type of event that caused the earthquake, which many felt to be an earthquake on the coast of Tuscany and in some inland areas, has not yet been confirmed.”
600 km/h
According to the geophysical institute of the region and the University of Florence, the cause of the earthquake was moving at a speed of 600 kilometers per second. “The hypothesis of a meteorite entering the atmosphere seems the most likely and is consistent with the recorded data.”
This was reported by an anonymous source of the Italian civil defense agency This was reported by the Italian newspaper “Corriere della Sera”., “the impact would have been recorded by seismographs. “The most likely hypothesis remains about the plane.”