Another earthquake
Friday, August 3rd, 2007This morning around five we woke up because the bed was shaking. Yep, it was another earthquake. We were even able to feel aftershocks, I think. It was a 4.0 on the Richter scale, and the epicentre was about 50 km north of here, close to Andernach (where we lived until last summer). Here’s the data and a map (time shown in UTC, so add two hours for daylight savings time in Germany).
I also found out that a second earthquake happened half an hour later, but we didn’t wake up again, probably because it only was a 2.0 with nearly the same epicentre.
The local newspaper, the Rhein-Zeitung, says the first earthquake has been the strongest earthquake in 15 years (article in German).