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Earthquake hits south of Rennes
Residents to the south of Rennes, in Brittany, felt shaking and heard noises as a minor earthquake shook the area in the middle of the night.

A quake of 3.9 on the Richter scale – which can often cause shaking indoors – hit at 3.43, with the epicentre being near to Vern-sur-Seiche and Janzé and 4km underground.
Social media briefly buzzed with residents woken suddenly, some wondering if it was real or part of a dream. The departmental emergency centre of Ile-et-Vilaine also report receiving dozens of calls in the middle of the night.
Pile je me réveille en pleine nuit, pile y a un petit tremblement de terre, j'étais la "je rêve encore ?!" #rennes
— Coco 🥥 (@badwolfxe) September 28, 2017
This is one of the largest quakes in France this year, equal to one north of Châteaubriant in Pays-de-la-Loire last month and second only to a magnitude 4 ‘light’ earthquake that hit at Bagnorrès-de-Bigorre in the Pyrenees in April.
While very small earthquakes are common in the south-east of France, ones large enough to feel happen more often in the north-west and south-west.
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