{"id":27484,"date":"2017-10-31T07:08:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T12:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27484"},"modified":"2017-10-31T07:08:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T12:08:07","slug":"europe-fears-the-big-one-after-140-earthquakes-strike-the-french-alps-in-40-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27484","title":{"rendered":"Europe Fears \u2018The Big One\u2019 After 140 Earthquakes Strike The French Alps In 40 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

Europe Fears \u2018The Big One\u2019 After 140 Earthquakes Strike The French Alps In 40 Days<\/a><\/h3>\n
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In recent weeks, the locals living in the Maurienne part of Savoie in the French Alps have been getting used to being shaken awake at night. The region has been rocked by 140 earthquakes in a mere 40 days sparking fears that Europe may soon experience \u201cthe big one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sismalp,\u00a0a French earthquake organization,<\/a> has registered 140 minor tremors in the area in the last month or so. And with the strongest tremor being recorded 3.8 on the Richter scale, many are panicked that Europe\u2019s \u201cbig one\u201d could occur soon.\u00a0While none of the earthquakes have been strong enough to cause any structural damage, they are starting to worry locals. Residents have been briefed about how to act in the case of a powerful tremor.<\/a><\/p>\n

Martine, a resident of the village of Montgellafray, told a local radio station<\/a>: \u201cThe noise is like a storm coming from far away. Everything shakes. I said \u2018that\u2019s it, all the tiles are going to break\u2019. The last earthquake was really frightening. Since the end of August, it has never stopped. Every two days there is one and they are getting more common.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other village residents\u00a0say many are asking questions about the earthquake swarm and the potential large-scale quake in the near future. \u201cEveryone is asking questions. Everyone in the village is talking about it,\u201d Yves, a fellow resident said.<\/p>\n

But those living in the region have not had their fears alleviated.\u00a0Seismologists say they are unable to explain the increase in the number of quakes<\/a>\u00a0in the region but have placed five new sensors in the valley to \u201cmonitor and better understand the phenomenon\u201d.\u00a0 Back in 2014 after a series of earthquakes along the French Riviera, a seismologist specializing in the swarms told The Local<\/em> that south-east France would be hit with a huge quake at some point.<\/p>\n

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Europe Fears \u2018The Big One\u2019 After 140 Earthquakes Strike The French Alps In 40 Days In recent weeks, the locals living in the Maurienne part of Savoie in the French Alps have been getting used to being shaken awake at night. The region has been rocked by 140 earthquakes in a mere 40 days sparking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[222,281,333,2194,16805],"class_list":["post-27484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-earthquakes","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-french-alps","tag-shftplan-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27485,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27484\/revisions\/27485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}