An earthquake of magnitude 4 was felt at five in the morning in the metropolitan area of Strasbourg with its epicenter in the North West, near La Wantzenau. Five minutes later, another magnitude 2 quake was felt.
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And according to Renass, the transalpine institute for seismological observation, they were due to the geothermal tests carried out in the Alsatian power plant of Fornoche, a French company specializing in renewable energy. The geothermal tests launched last October involve the injection of water at high pressure into the soil and have already caused ten earthquakes.
