This Friday at 10:14 p.m., a new earthquake measuring 2.9 on the Richter scale shook the lands of the Pays de Vannes. This is the fifth time in a week. On social networks, residents express their concern.
And five: Friday evening, a new seismic shock was recorded in the country of Vannes, reports Ouest-France. Brief, but abrupt enough to cause concern among many residents, according to the reactions which followed one another on social networks in the aftermath. “Earthquake in the Vannes region, just now. The house shook quite a bit. It’s so funny“can we read about X, or even”small earthquake in Vannes, it’s becoming a habit I have the impression…” “Really a lot in a week, it’s starting to be scary” commented an Internet user on the Facebook page “Ouest-France Vannes”. Indeed, this is the fifth time that the earth has shaken in the region in the space of just a week.
“A big scientific question”
The earth had already shook in the area on October 4 and 6, each time twice, even causing cracks in a building whose inhabitants had been evacuated.
Questioned by Le Télégramme, Éric Beucler, member of the Laboratory of Planetology and Geosciences and director of Universe Sciences at the University of Nantes, indicates that the country of Vannes is “an area that is monitored quite regularly. Already in February 2021, a series of small tremors had been felt in this same sector“. And to specify: “We are here on the South Armorican shear. There was a plate boundary 350 million years ago. Here, near the route of the current dual carriageway, there is the trace of a fault but the border between the two tectonic plates has long since closed. So we are here on a big scientific question“.
The earthquake on Friday evening, with a magnitude of 2.9 on the Richter scale, caused a dull noise, particularly near Ploeren, its epicenter, six kilometers from Vannes. It was felt in several municipalities in the region: Meucon, Questembert, Saint-Avé, even going so far as to be felt in the Auray region (Brech, Pluneret, Plougoumelen and of course Saint-Goustan…) hour, this earthquake is the highest recorded this week in the country of Vannes. The territory experienced its most significant earthquake in November 2013, with a magnitude of 4.6 recorded between Meucon and Grand-Champ.
