Minor Earthquake between Martigny and Chamonix

In the night of 25 October at 03:11 local time a small earthquake occured in the French-Swiss border region between Martigny VS and Chamonix. The tremor with a magnitude of 3.6 was located at shallow depth and was likely felt in the canton Valais and in the Lake Geneva region. No damage is expected from an earthquake this size.

As you may have realized, our website was intermittently off-line on 25 October. This was due to a technical problem affecting the whole ETH which has meanwhile been resolved.