A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Gaszowice in Poland. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/01/19 / 2019-01-22 22:35:29 / January 22, 2019 @ 10:35 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.4 km (3 miles). The temblor was picked up at 23:35:29 / 11:35 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000j8la. Unique identifier: us2000j8la. Exact location, longitude 18.4318° East, latitude 50.1084° North, depth = 5.4 km.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jeseník, Nysa, Krzeszowice (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) from Katowice (c. 317 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Ostrava (c. 313 100 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Sosnowiec (c. 227 300 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Gliwice (c. 198 800 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Zabrze (c. 192 200 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Bytom (c. 189 200 pop). Close country/countries, Czech Republic (c. 10 476 000 pop), Poland (c. 38 500 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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 Gaszowice, Poland.
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