Before that of Nice, what were the main earthquakes in France?

Before that of Nice, what were the main earthquakes in France?

“A rumble like a small explosion, the movable movables and the walls that vibrate. This is how a Niçois told, on social networks, having lived the earthquake on Tuesday evening. Its epicenter was located 16 km north of the city, for a magnitude of 4.1. Or a substantial but relative power on the Richter scale, … Read more

Earthquake in Nice: what are the French regions exposed to seismic risk

Earthquake in Nice: what are the French regions exposed to seismic risk

More fear than harm: an earthquake of magnitude 4.1 and several aftershocks in the Nice hinterland shaken the Côte d’Azur on Tuesday, March 18 in the evening, but no injuries or damage, were reported. According to the national seismic surveillance network (Renass), the first earthquake occurred at 6:45 p.m., with an epicenter about fifteen kilometers … Read more

The Côte d’Azur shaken by an earthquake of magnitude 4,1

The Côte d’Azur shaken by an earthquake of magnitude 4,1

An earthquake of magnitude 4.1 in the Nice hinterland shook the entire Côte d’Azur on Tuesday evening, but no injuries or damage were reported, the authorities announced. The earthquake occurred around 6.45 p.m., with an epicenter 15 km north of Nice, according to the French central office office. It was very clearly felt in Nice, … Read more

An earthquake of magnitude 4,1 shakes Nice and its surroundings

An earthquake of magnitude 4,1 shakes Nice and its surroundings

It was around 6:45 pm that an earthquake of magnitude 4.1 struck Nice and the department of the Alpes-Maritimes, according to data from France earthquake. This earthquake, whose epicenter was located 16 km north of Nice, was largely felt throughout the PACA region as well as in Italy. Many Internet users have shared their experience … Read more

Can Santorini be engulfed by a mega volcanic eruption?

Can Santorini be engulfed by a mega volcanic eruption?

Since the end of January, an exceptional seismic crisis has started at the bottom of the sea between the islands of Santorini and Amorgos, in the Cyclades archipelago, south-east of Greece. Thousands of earthquakes have been recorded, some of which are magnitude of 4 to 5. The Greek authorities declared the state of emergency in … Read more

Google sends a false alert to an imaginary earthquake in Brazil

Google sends a false alert to an imaginary earthquake in Brazil

It is a night of anxiety for nothing that Brazilians lived. Thousands of them were brutally awakened in the middle of the night by an earthquake alert … which never took place. Friday, Google apologized after an error in its Android system sparked a false seismic alert in several states in the south-east of the … Read more

SISM IN CDMX: Why didn’t the seismic alert sound this February 14?

SISM IN CDMX: Why didn’t the seismic alert sound this February 14?

The morning of Valentine’s Day, at 9:27 in the morning, in Mexico City, an earthquake took the population off guard, Since it is expected that when a seismological event happens, the seismic alert sounds. However, this time it was not so. According to sources of the National Seismological Servicethe telluric movement had a preliminary magnitude … Read more

Santorini placed in an emergency due to earthquakes

Santorini placed in an emergency due to earthquakes

The Greek island of Santorini is going through an unusual seismic activity period that worries experts and authorities. Since January 26, more than 7,700 earthquakes have been recorded in the maritime area between Santorini and Amorgos, according to the Sismology Laboratory of the University of Athens (EKPA). Among these tremors, seven earthquakes of magnitude greater … Read more

Turkey commemorates the “earthquake of the century”

Turkey commemorates the “earthquake of the century”

Turkey commemorates the earthquake on February 6, 2023 on Thursday, which swallowed nearly 60,000 lives and transformed whole cities into fields of ruins. At 04:17 am, the magnitude 7.8 earthquake, felt to Egypt, had collapsed thousands of buildings in southeast Turkey, trapped their sleeping inhabitants. Two years after what Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan described … Read more