Earthquakes in Serre Chevalier

by Rick Lomas on October 19, 2007

I suppose this will happen if you live on a fault line, after all that is the whole reason The Alps are there in the first place! Anyway, for some reason I was having a browse around on the internet last night to see if the small earthquake I had experienced a few weeks ago was noted anywhere. I remember last summer being quite excited by a small earthquake, where the epicenter was near Nevache and I knew I had written about it somewhere and reported it too. This time the epicenter was 2km from Monetier-le-Bains, rumours have it that people were running out of their houses in fear, but you never know how exaggerated these ‘Chinese whispers’ get:)

Anyway I did find what I’d written about and I commented on the more recent one too… it’s here: Earthquake in Serre Chevalier