Quake rocks central Spain

A 5.4-magnitude earthquake jolted Madrid and central Spain on Monday, seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. The quake struck at 5:16 pm (1616 GMT) with its epicentre at Ossa de Montiel near Albacete, about 220 kilometres (135 miles) south-east of Madrid, Spain's National Geographic Institute said.
Its depth was given as 14 kilometres (8 miles). Fire-fighters in Albacete received several calls for information but not to intervene, a local fire-fighter service spokesman said. The last deadly earthquake in Spain occurred on May 11, 2011 when a 5.1-magnitude quake killed nine people and wounded at least 100 in the south-eastern city of Lorca. That quake, which struck at a depth of 10 kilometres, damaged some 20,000 buildings including many from the 16th and 17th centuries.