A tremor with a magnitude of 2.7 on the Richter scale was recorded Monday, October 7 in the morning in Calvados, with an epicenter in Cambes-en-Plaine.
Special awakening in Normandy. An earthquake was recorded at 9:34 a.m. precisely in Caen (Calvados) and the surrounding area, this Monday, October 7, 2024. “ Revised and confirmed » by an analyst from the French Central and Seismological Bureau – National Seismic Monitoring Network (BCSF-Rénass), the earthquake had a magnitude of 2.7 on the Richter scale, which has nine levels. No damage was reported after this low-intensity tremor.
The epicenter of the earthquake was in Cambes-en-Plaine, a town located 6 kilometers north of Caen. The BCSF-Rénass specifies that the depth was 4 kilometers. This is not the first time that such an event has occurred in the region: West France recalls that the earth had already shook in August 2006, with an earthquake of magnitude 3.2, but also in November 2021, after a tremor of magnitude 2.5.
Three tremors in four days in Brittany
This Norman earthquake comes after a series of four tremors in three days in Brittany, in the Vannes sector (Morbihan). The latest occurred in the early hours of Sunday morning and had a magnitude of 2.7 on the Richter scale.
“A little more than 47,800 earthquakes were recorded between 1962 and 2020 in metropolitan France. Their magnitude is less than 3 for almost all of them (98.8%) », explains a report from the Ministry of Ecological Transition on natural risks in France, published in January 2024. The last large earthquake in France occurred in the Niort region (Deux-Sèvres), in June 2023. With a magnitude of 5.3, it was responsible for the evacuation of a village in Charente-Maritime, Cramchaban, where a house had collapsed.
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