1799 Vendée Earthquake
The 1799 Vendée earthquake (french: Séisme de 1799 dans le Marais breton-vendéen) or Bouin earthquake was a Seismic magnitude scales, magnitude 6.4 earthquake that struck the Vendée area of western France on 25 January 1799 (6 Pluviôse of year VII in the French Republican calendar) with aftershocks on the following days. Its epicenter was located at a depth of 24 km in the Bay of Bourgneuf at the level of the island of Bouin, Vendée, Bouin. Shocks of intensity VII–VIII were felt throughout the west of France. Location The passage du Gois, in the Bay of Bourgneuf, links Beauvoir-sur-Mer on the mainland to Barbâtre on the île de Noirmoutier. Another reference in terms of regional seismicity is the 1972 Oléron earthquake, 1972 earthquake on the island of Oléron in and in . The earthquake of 25 January 1799 was located in the Marais Breton marshland, a wetland located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean which marks the limit between the two former Provinces of ...
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