Monday’s quake, with a magnitude of 5.4, was felt in a vast area between the cities of Lyon and Montelimar which are about 150 kilometres apart, the national seismological office said. But that area is not the French region the most at risk from earthquakes. That honour falls to two regions in the French Alps and a zone that runs almost the entire length of the Pyrenees beween France from Spain. Le Parisien newspaper has produced a handy guide to where the most recent quakes have taken place and where the riskiest zones are. The strongest recent quake prior to Monday’s was just a few months ago, on June 21st in Tancoigné in the Maine-et-Loire department of western France.

Source: The Local November 12, 2019 16:49 UTC