A weak earthquake, of magnitude 2.8, was felt in Ardèche in the night of Saturday to Sunday, less than two weeks after a much more powerful earthquake occurred on November 11 in the vicinity, indicates concordant sources. This event occurred around 23:15 at 3 km from Teil and 6 km from Montélimar, according to the website of the National Seismic Monitoring Network (RéNaSS) in Strasbourg, which states that the measurement, automatic, has not yet been validated by an analyst.
Firefighters in the Ardèche said they received "about thirty calls from people worried" following this "slight reply", but said they had not conducted any intervention.
A seismic episode in France
An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale, which lasted only a few seconds on 11 November at midday, had caused a lot of damage, particularly in Teil, a city of 8,500 inhabitants. Nine communes, five in Ardèche and four in the Drôme, were recognized in a state of natural disaster by a decree published Saturday in the Official Journal.
France has recently experienced several seismic episodes, in the Pyrenees (3.8), near Pau (magnitude 3.8), in Strasbourg (3.1), in Deux-Sèvres (3.7) or in France. the Puy-de-Dôme (3.7).