Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Trencianske Teplice in Slovakia

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Trencianske Teplice in Slovakia on Friday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.58 km (4 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:25:11 / 2:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 18.1749 East, latitude 48.9084 North, depth = 6.58 km. Unique identifier: us1000gb95. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000gb95. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/08/18 / 2018-08-17 01:25:11 / August 17, 2018 @ 1:25 am.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nový Jičín, Chropyně, Kopřivnice (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Czech Republic (c. 10 476 000 pop), Slovakia (c. 5 455 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 67 km (42 miles) from Nitra (c. 86 300 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Žilina (c. 86 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Banská Bystrica (c. 82 300 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Zlín (c. 78 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Trnava (c. 69 800 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 0 km ESE of Trencianske Teplice, Slovakia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	18.1749° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	48.9084° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.58 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	0km ESE of Trencianske Teplice, Slovakia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-08-17 01:25:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-17 09:12:59	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	60	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	121	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	0.962	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.48 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	82	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	us1000gb95	Id of event.
Event Code	1000gb95	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000gb95,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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