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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Paniowki in Poland


Earthquake location 50.21S, 18.8257WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Paniowki in Poland. Exact location, longitude 18.8257° East, latitude 50.21° North, depth = 5 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Global time and date of event 03/10/19 / 2019-10-03 13:01:39 / October 3, 2019 @ 1:01 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us70005quq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005quq. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:01:39 / 2:01 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 15 km (10 miles) from Katowice (c. 317 300 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Ostrava (c. 313 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Częstochowa (c. 248 100 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Sosnowiec (c. 227 300 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Gliwice (c. 198 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kłobuck, Bílovec, Frýdlant nad Ostravicí. Country/countries that might be effected, Czech Republic (c. 10 476 000 pop), Poland (c. 38 500 000 pop).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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: 3 km SE of Paniowki, Poland. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 18.8257° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.21° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SE of Paniowki, Poland Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-03 13:01:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-04 19:24:36 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 0.625 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 160 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 us70005quq Id of event.
Event Code 70005quq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005quq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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