A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Tourrette-Levens in France. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/03/25 / 2025-03-18 21:24:20 / March 18, 2025 @ 9:24 pm. The temblor was reported at 21:24:20 / 9:24 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pzn6. Id of event: us6000pzn6. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 7.2915 East, latitude 43.7835 North, depth = 10 km.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 9 km (6 miles) from Nice (c. 338 600 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Antibes (c. 76 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Cannes (c. 70 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Fréjus (c. 53 100 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Grasse (c. 47 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, France (c. 64 768 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Breo, Mondovì, Vidauban (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 1 km ESE of Tourrette-Levens, France.
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