Merry Christmas and a dynamic new year without strong shaking

Our Christmas tree is richly decorated this year. It has as many Christmas ornaments as the number of earthquakes that occurred in and around Switzerland from 1 January until 31 October 2017.

1047 earthquakes with magnitude below 2.5
17 earthquakes with magnitude between 2.5 and 3.9
2 earthquakes with magnitude above 3.9:
magnitude 4.6, Urnerboden (UR), 6 March
magnitude 4.3, Château-d’Oex (VD), 1 July

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a dynamic new year though hopefully without strong shaking!