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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 4 km SSW of Grebocice, Poland


Earthquake location 51.5587S, 16.1444WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Grebocice in Poland on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/08/16 / 2016-08-13 12:00:57 / August 13, 2016 @ 12:00 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 16.1444° East, 51.5587° North, depth 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006djv. Id of event: us10006djv. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:00:57 / 2:00 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dzierżoniów, Pieszyce, Głuszyca. Nearby country/countries, Poland (c. 38 500 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Wrocław (c. 634 900 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Wałbrzych (c. 127 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Zielona Góra (c. 118 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Legnica (c. 106 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Jelenia Góra (c. 87 300 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Lubin (c. 77 500 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Głogów (c. 68 500 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km SSW of Grebocice, Poland. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 16.1444° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.5587° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SSW of Grebocice, Poland Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-13 12:00:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-26 08:36:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 340 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.982 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10006djv Id of event.
Event Code 10006djv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006djv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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