Earth tremor

Earth tremor - An earth tremor off the coast of Monaco has been felt across the Côte d'Azur. The tremor with a magnitude of 2.4 was recorded on Sunday January 7th at 8:31 p.m. off the coast of Monaco. According to SismoAzur, the epicentre was located at around a hundred kilometres off the coast of the Principality of Monaco and could be felt along the entire Alpes-Maritimes coastline and even in the Nice hinterland. A similar earth tremor had been reported on December 21 also with a magnitude of 2.4, on the Franco-Italian border. Its epicentre was detected in Monterosso Grana, south of the municipality of Cuneo in Italy.

 

 

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