A small earthquake happened just off the coast of Lanzarote on 01/08/18. No need to panic as there is plenty of monitoring going on with regards to activity and we would have plenty of warning should anything dangerous was to happen.
The seismic movement reached a magnitude of 2.9 degrees off the west coast of the island in the morning. The movement off the west coast of Lanzarote produced a tremor reaching 2.9 degrees.