The shock was felt as far away as Alsace: an earthquake of magnitude 4.4 was recorded during the night from Wednesday to Thursday, at 3:06 a.m., in the Zell im Wiesental sector, in Germany, indicates the National Network seismic monitoring.
According to the Badische Zeitung, which speaks of a magnitude of 4.2, the event is the strongest of this type recorded since the start of the year in southern Baden. Four low-intensity aftershocks followed at 3:13 a.m. (magnitude 1.7), at 3:55 a.m. (1.4), at 5:22 a.m. (0.7), at 5:48 a.m. (0.7) The state government has established a platform for collect testimonies.
As far as Thann and Munster
According to the first testimonies collected, this earthquake, which occurred around twenty kilometers from the border as the crow flies, was felt within a radius of several tens of kilometers, and particularly in Alsace. This Thursday morning, reports were recorded in the Rhineland and as far as the valleys of Thann, Munster, and even in Wintzenheim.
Hundreds of testimonies in Switzerland
For its part, the Swiss seismological service recorded a 4.2 magnitude earthquake and collected hundreds of testimonies from Swiss people who felt it. On the other hand, help was not requested. Ditto in Germany where firefighters from the Lörrach and Friborg sectors did not have to intervene.
The first information communicated by the French and Swiss seismological institutes is automatically generated on the basis of sensor readings, and can be refined or detailed subsequently by seismologists.
