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- In the canton of Glarus and in the Basel area, the earth shook several times on Sunday night.
- According to the ETH Zurich earthquake service, the strongest earthquake was recorded at 8.35pm with a magnitude of around 4.4.
- Earthquakes of this magnitude are quite rare in Switzerland.
The epicenter was near Elm in the canton of Glarus, as announced by the earthquake service on its website. Initially, the epicenter was specified in a Twitter message from the earthquake service with the Kärpf mountain.
However, it did not stop with this single earthquake, instead there were numerous aftershocks: at 8.42 pm another earthquake with a magnitude of 2.7 was recorded near Elm, and a minute later another earthquake with a magnitude of 3.6 was measured in the same place. At 9:13 p.m. there was another earthquake with a magnitude of 2.9 in Elm. And at 11:23 pm, according to earthquake specialists, the earth shook again with a magnitude of 3 at roughly the same point.
Already on Sunday afternoon at 2:37 pm the earth had slightly trembled in Arolla VS. The magnitude was given there as 2.7. So far this year, the earthquake service has recorded 941 earthquakes in Switzerland.
Many felt the shaking near Elm
While the 4.4 magnitude earthquake was widely felt, the other earthquakes were likely only mildly felt. The earthquake service announced in the evening that earthquakes near Elm had been felt over a wide area. Due to inquiries from concerned citizens, the website for the earthquake service was only temporarily available on a limited basis and the earthquake service could not be reached by phone.
Everything moved and shook.
The earthquake was clearly felt at the Glarus Canton Police Emergency Call Center. When asked by Keystone-SDA, the police officer on duty said that the earthquake was clearly noticeable for about ten to twelve seconds.
Then the phone got hot. He couldn’t count the calls, but there were probably dozens. At the moment, no reports of property damage or even personal injury have been received.
