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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Luby in Czech Republic


Earthquake location 50.2553S, 12.4803WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Luby in Czech Republic. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:54:03 / 8:54 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 12.4803 East, latitude 50.2553 North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us1000ea82. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ea82. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/05/18 / 2018-05-22 19:54:03 / May 22, 2018 @ 7:54 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nýřany, Pößneck, Flöha. Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from Chemnitz (c. 247 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Gera (c. 104 700 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Zwickau (c. 98 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Bayreuth (c. 75 100 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Plauen (c. 66 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Germany (c. 81 802 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 5 km E of Luby, Czech Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 12.4803° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.2553° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km E of Luby, Czech Republic Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-22 19:54:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-22 22:04:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 149 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 0.989 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000ea82 Id of event.
Event Code 1000ea82 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ea82, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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