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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, but there were numerous aftershocks: at 8:42 pm, another tremor with a magnitude of 2.7 was recorded near Elm, and a minute later another tremor with a magnitude of 3.6 in the same place. At 9:13 p.m. there was another earthquake of magnitude 2.9 in Elm. And at 11:23 p.m., according to earthquake specialists, the earth shook again at roughly the same point with a magnitude of 3.1.
The earth had already trembled slightly in Arolla (Valais) on Sunday afternoon at 2:37 pm The magnitude there was given as 2.7. So far this year, the earthquake service has recorded 941 earthquakes in Switzerland.
While the 4.4 magnitude earthquake was also felt in the neighboring cantons of St. Gallen and Graubünden, it is likely that the other earthquakes were only slightly 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.
