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    Magnitude 4.8 earthquake strikes France – GFZ

    (Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 4.8 struck France on Friday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said.

    The earthquake's epicenter was near a commune in the Charente-Maritime region of western France, at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), GFZ said.

    There was no immediate information on casualties or damage from the quake.

    The GFZ revised an earlier measurement of a 5.5 magnitude earthquake.

    (Reporting by Akriti Sharma in Bengaluru; Editing by Frank Jack Daniel and Jonathan Oatis)

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