“The walls, the cupboards, the crockery shook! “; “A long rumble … everything changed.” You weren’t dreaming, the earth shook during the night of December 24th to 25th, in North Franche-Comté.
On social networks, there are many testimonies that evoke an earthquake in Nord-Franche-Comté. This was felt in Montbéliard, Voujeaucourt, Pont-de-Roide, Hérimoncourt, Cernay-l’Eglise …
Magnitude 4.3, the epicenter in the Swiss Jura
According to French Central Seismological Office, the epicenter of the earthquake is 18 km south-east of Montbéliard…. That is to say at the Swiss border, in the town of Damvant.
The tremors, impressive but which do not seem to have done any damage, could be felt within a radius of 20 km around this municipality in the Swiss Jura.
This earthquake occurs four days after the first shocks in the watchmaking country, near the town of Morteau.