Gran Canaria was rumbled by the tremor at 7.20pm (GMT+1) Tuesday, measuring 3.8 on the Richter scale. The shaking was felt in 14 of the Canary island's 21 municipalities, with seismologists calling it the fiercest in 60 years.
Tuesday's earthquake was initially recorded as measuring 4.1, before being revised. Its epicentre was Santa Maria de Guia in the north of the island, although subsequent reports described it as being around 13 miles off its north-west coast.
Itahiza Dominguez, the Canary Islands Director for the National Geographic Institute, told media it was the strongest earthquake detected in Gran Canaria in at least 60 years. There were no immediate reports of any casualties or structural damage.
