On April 22, 2024, an earthquake woke up the inhabitants of a small town in Switzerland, about twenty kilometers from the French border.
A new earthquake has disrupted residents of the region. During the night from Sunday to Monday, an earthquake of magnitude 3.8 was felt near Yverdon, Switzerland, reports France 3.
3.8 on the Richter scale
Around 3:30 a.m., the Swiss Seismological Service (SED), at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, detected an earthquake measuring 3.8 on the Richter scale. The phenomenon was felt near Lake Neuchâtel, not far from the border with France and the Doubs department.
The event could be felt as far away as France. The network national seismic monitoring (Renass), recorded the earthquake at a depth of 1.6 kilometers.
Between 1,000 and 5,000 earthquakes per year
The area where the earthquake occurred is used to seismic events. Dozens of earthquakes are represented on the map “past earthquakes” of the National Seismic Monitoring Network. For some of them, measured in the 1990s, the magnitude exceeded 5 on the Richter scale.
Each year in Switzerland, the seismological service records between 1,000 and 5,000 earthquakes. But these earthquakes are most often very slight, or even undetectable. This is evidenced by the feelings of the residents, who only perceive these tremors 10 to 20 times a year. To be detected by humans, earthquakes generally must have a magnitude greater than 2.5.