The earth trembled this Sunday morning in the Oloron Sainte-Marie sector (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) and may have surprised some residents. It was a 3.5 magnitude "weak" earthquake, the French Central Seismological Bureau (BCSF) said in a statement.
# EarthquakePYRENEES 9 km SE of Oloron-Ste-Marie (64) M = 3.5, 02/23/2020 10:23 am local according to CEA-LDG
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LEVEL OF NOTICE: weak EARTHQUAKE
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The quake, which occurred at 10:23 a.m., had its epicenter 9 km southeast of this city and 24 km southwest of Pau, according to this press release based on automatic preliminary information. The firemen of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques indicated that they had not carried out any intervention Sunday morning in connection with this seismic event.
The previous tremor with a magnitude greater than 3.5 within a radius of 20 km from the Sunday epicenter dates back to November 2, located in the Navarrenx sector (3.6), according to the Strasbourg-based BCSF. She had done no damage or been injured.
The tremors are nothing exceptional for this Pyrenean region, a seismic zone known as the Alps.
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