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2011-08-03 ML 4.3 FRANCE

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Magnitude	ML 4.3
Region	FRANCE
Date time	2011-08-03 01:36:11.0 UTC
Location	44.30 N ; 4.35 E
Depth	2 km
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Witness location : Barjac (France) (1 km NW from epicenter)

Surprising us during the night, everything vibrated.
Awesome!

Witness location : Issirac (France) (11 km E from epicenter)

Lasted 5-10 secs

Witness location : Vallon-Pont-d'Arc (France) (12 km N from epicenter)

It lasted about 8 seconds. It wasn't a very nice way to wake up!!

Witness location : Vallon-Pont-d'Arc (France) (12 km N from epicenter)

Everything shook for 5-8 seconds, with a low rumbling noise. Not a very nice way to wake up!!

Witness location : Saint-Ambroix (France) (13 km W from epicenter)

There seemed to be a fainter roar that kept going for a few secs, maybe 30secs afterwards

Witness location : Allègre-les-Fumades (France) (14 km SW from epicenter)

We are staying in chateau de boisson and felt it shaking in the middle of the night during about three seconds.

Witness location : Saint-Paul-le-Jeune (France) (16 km W from epicenter)

Strange to feel this in Ardèche. I wonder what happened. It seems that it never happen before in this area. I've already felt this in Nizza, but it's seems more normal there. Everything was moving with a big earth noise for 2 or 3 seconds.

Witness location : Ruoms (France) (17 km NW from epicenter)

Wood structure of home did cracking noise

Witness location : Saint-Michel-d'Euzet (France) (19 km SE from epicenter)

3/4 seconds long, enough strong to awake me.

Witness location : Chambonas (France) (22 km NW from epicenter)

Woke up at 3:36 am, heavy vibrations and an awful low noise like thunder for nearly 10 seconds.

Witness location : La Grand-Combe (France) (27 km W from epicenter)

It sounded like an explosion occurring far away, my bed shook only once, it lasted not more than a second, . I first thought of a gas explosion in some house far away, or a sonic boom from a night training fighter.

Witness location : Saint-Hilaire-de-Brethmas (France) (30 km SW from epicenter)

En résumé grondement,2-3 sec et vaisselle vibrante, cela m'a réveillé, j'ai regardé par la fenêtre et n'ai rien remarqué de spécial

Witness location : Ucel (France) (38 km N from epicenter)

I was awake and heard it first before feeling it, a very "low" sound... then a few vibrations sideways, then only sound again fading... I would say overall less than 5 seconds. One more person in the house heard it too. 3h37!

Witness location : L'Estréchure (France) (50 km SW from epicenter)

durée très courte mais évènement bruyant (bruit de petit camion dans la chambre)

Witness location : Colognac (France) (52 km SW from epicenter)

Could hear it coming......loud rumbling noise before the shaking started. Thought the military experimenting with huge new aircraft!

Witness location : Saint-Martial (France) (57 km SW from epicenter)

The loud rumbling woke me and my partner up, the house was creaking and everything in the kitchen rattling.

Witness location : Montpellier (France) (85 km SW from epicenter)

I just heard my radiator vibrate. I sleep with my head against this one, the vibration of the metallic radiator woke me up.

Witness location : Montpellier (France) (85 km SW from epicenter)

it was a slight lateral shaking that wake me up at about 3:40 (local time)

Witness location : Lodève (France) (104 km SW from epicenter)

no I just want report my impressions and make a report.
I understood in the seconds of the trembling it was an earthquakes, and it stoped.
I am happy to know that I m not mad ^^

Witness location : 60 Km SW Vergeze (France) (118 km SW from epicenter)

It was 3.36/3.37 a.m when I was awoken by an anormaly cracking wooden wardrobe, it happens sometime here in southern France because of the summer heat, but never like this... Then a rumbling noise followed by vibrations during 5 or 6 seconds and nothing more... So I switched on the light to check if it wasn't a dream and if the roof wasn't on my feet. I just saw my cat watching me, therefore I switched off to find a new position to sleep... Waiting for a big aftershock...

European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre

2011-08-03 ML 4.3 FRANCE