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Earthquake rocked Nice on Saturday
3.7 tremor shook the Alpes-Maritime region at 21:14
The epicentre was located between the towns of Sospel and Breil sur Roya, in the Menton area just over 30 kilometres from Nice.
The earthquake took place at 21:14 on Saturday night, and it reached all the way to the centre of Nice. Luckily, due to its moderate nature, there were no personal or material losses.
Alpes-Maritimes is one of the more seismically active regions in France, even if this event concerns a fault that is still not very well-known, according to Bertrand Delouis, researcher at the University of Nice-Sophia-Antipolis. The same area suffered a 6.5 earthquake in 1887 that caused important material damage.
