Malaga shaken as magnitude 4.4 earthquake strikes Alboran Sea

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Emergency services handle dozens of calls as tremors are felt across the Costa del Sol in the early hours

Isabel Méndez

Málaga

Wednesday, 18 March 2026, 10:16 | Updated 11:04h.

Several parts of Malaga province registered tremors during an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.4 and an epicentre in the Alboran Sea in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

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Residents of the Guadalmar and La Araña areas in Malaga city also noticed it.

The earthquake was recorded at a depth of 87 kilometres in the western part of the sea.