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schema:articleBody	The eastern French city of Strasbourg was shaken awake on Saturday by a 3.9-magnitude earthquake, the strongest yet in a string of shocks caused by a now-mothballed geothermal project. The epicentre of the quake, which began at 5:00 am, was five kilometres (about three miles) below the surface, under the northern suburb of La Wantzenau, according to France's National Seismic Monitoring Network (Renass). A 2.3-magnitude aftershock was recorded five minutes later. Both events were classified by Renass as "induced", or caused by human activity. While the shocks were not thought to have done much damage beyond creating some cracks in people's homes, they have reignited controversy over the geothermal project, which was halted late last year after a number of seismic incidents. "It was really strong this time," tweeted Alain Fontanel, one of the leaders of the opposition in Strasbourg's city council. "The whole house shook for a few seconds. Thanks to the sorcerers' apprentices of deep geothermal energy for this rude awakening." Fonroche Geothermie, the project developer, had previously admitted that its activities were the cause of some of the earthquakes and said that Saturday's event was also "linked to the return to equilibrium" of the underground geological structures. The project has been linked to 15 quakes of a magnitude of at least two since November 2019. Local authorities put a stop to the geothermal project last December after a series of more intense earthquakes, including a 3.5-magnitude one three days before the cessation order. "We have continued to see persistent seismic activity in recent months. The subsoil takes some time to react to the stopping (of the project)," Jerome Vergne, a seismologist at the School and Observatory of Earth Sciences in Strasbourg, told AFP. "What is surprising is that today we had the most significant earthquake of the sequence," he said. pbr/kjl
schema:headline	Geothermal project prompts Strasbourg earthquake
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schema:datePublished	2021-06-26 (xsd:date)
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