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Wednesday, Oct 21, 2026 22:19 | 2 hours ago | By: EarthquakeMonitor
A very shallow magnitude 2.8 earthquake was reported after midnight near Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France.
According to France’s Réseau National de Surveillance Sismique (RéNaSS), the quake struck on Thursday, October 22nd, 2026, at 12:13 a.m. local time, at a very shallow depth of 5. km. Shallow earthquakes are felt more strongly than deeper ones because they are closer to the surface. The exact magnitude, epicenter, and depth of the quake might be revised within the next few hours or minutes as seismologists review the data and refine their calculations, or as other agencies issue their reports.
Based on the preliminary seismic data, the quake should not have caused any significant damage, but it was probably felt by many people as a light vibration in the area of the epicenter.
Weak shaking might have been felt in Vertolaye (pop. 650), located 2 km from the epicenter.
Other towns or cities near the epicenter where the quake might have been felt as very weak shaking include Ambert (pop. 7,900), located 11 km from the epicenter, and Courpiere (pop. 4,900), 17 km away. In Thiers (pop. 13,700, 26 km away), Montbrison (pop. 16,200, 30 km away), Issoire (pop. 16,000, 36 km away), Cournon-d’Auvergne (pop. 18,800, 40 km away), Cournon-d’Auvergne (pop. 18,800, 40 km away), and
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