A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Grebocice in Poland. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000ja1i. Id of event: us2000ja1i. Exact location, longitude 16.1584° East, latitude 51.5714° North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/01/19 / 2019-01-29 12:53:45 / January 29, 2019 @ 12:53 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 13:53:45 / 1:53 pm (local time epicenter).
The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Wrocław (c. 634 900 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Wałbrzych (c. 127 400 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Zielona Góra (c. 118 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Legnica (c. 106 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Jelenia Góra (c. 87 300 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Lubin (c. 77 500 pop). Close country/countries, Poland (c. 38 500 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Boguszów-Gorce, Buk, Krosno Odrzańskie (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 3 km SSW of Grebocice, Poland.
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