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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near Ornontowice in Poland

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Ornontowice in Poland. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us1000hpcr. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hpcr. Exact location, longitude 18.7521° East, latitude 50.1902° North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/11/18 / 2018-11-08 19:23:37 / November 8, 2018 @ 7:23 pm. The temblor was picked up at 20:23:37 / 8:23 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Kraków (c. 755 100 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Katowice (c. 317 300 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Ostrava (c. 313 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Częstochowa (c. 248 100 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Sosnowiec (c. 227 300 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Gliwice (c. 198 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Turzovka, Kraków, Vítkov (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Czech Republic (c. 10 476 000 pop), Poland (c. 38 500 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	18.7521° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	50.1902° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	0km SSW of Ornontowice, Poland	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-11-08 19:23:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-09 09:07:51	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	60	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5.4	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	235	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	0.673	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	48	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	us1000hpcr	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hpcr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hpcr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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