On August 27, 2013, St. Gallen city council decided to continue with the geothermal energy project. In its role as an independent observer, the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) is monitoring seismic activity around the drilling rig and carried out a detailed analysis following the strongest earthquake so far, with its magnitude of 3.5. Over the past weeks and months, the SED has provided the St. Gallen public utilities company (Sankt Galler Stadtwerke) and the canton of St. Gallen with a series of updated findings as a basis for decision-making.
