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>Strong earthquake shakes Brittany >http://www.online.ie/news/viewer.adp?article=1847951 >30 Sep 2002 A strong earthquake shook the Brittany >coast in western France today, rattling homes and >sending panicked people into the streets. There were >no reports of injuries or serious damage. Worried >residents deluged police and fire stations with phone >calls after the tremor struck at 8:45 am. The >magnitude of the quake, centred outside the village of >Lorient, had a magnitude of 5.4. France's national >earthquake surveillance network, based in Strasbourg, >described the quake as "significant" and uncommonly >strong for France. The last tremor of equal magnitude >occurred in 1980 in the Pyrenees-Atlantique region. >Today's tremor, which lasted less than 12 seconds, >stretched from towns throughout Brittany to parts of >the Loire Valley. "I was in my office with two other >people when we heard a loud sound, like a plane had >just broken the sound barrier," said Leon Daniel, a >town official in Pluvigner, not far from the epicentre. >-- > > >This quake apparently was accompanied by a sonic >boom.I'm not sure I heard of quakes ocurring with a >sonic boom phenomena before. I have heard of fireballs >causing sonic booms and earth tremors but this was >5.4M earthquake. > >Does anyone know if sonic booms accmpany earthquakes >often? > >out.. > >SS

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