A “moderate” earthquake, of magnitude 4.2 on the Richter scale, took place early Saturday evening near Albertville (Savoie), indicated on its website the National Seismic Monitoring Network (Renass), based in Strasbourg.
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The quake, whose epicenter is 4 kilometers northwest of the city, was recorded at 6:03 p.m.
The intensity was initially measured at 4.8, before Renass refined its measurement to 4.2.
A little later at 6:21 p.m., the Renass detected a second quake of magnitude 3.9, 7 km west of Albertville.
Some 600 earthquakes occur in France every year, but only 10 to 15 are felt by the population.
Alsace, Midi-Pyrénées, the Mediterranean coast and the Alps are the regions most frequently affected.
