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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Jejkowice in Poland


Earthquake location 50.1356S, 18.4742WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Jejkowice in Poland. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/07/24 / 2024-07-11 06:16:08 / July 11, 2024 @ 6:16 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.513 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 06:16:08 / 6:16 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000myih. Id of event: us7000myih. Exact location of event, longitude 18.4742 East, latitude 50.1356 North, depth = 8.513 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chocznia, Bruntál, Łazy (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Czech Republic (c. 10 476 000 pop), Poland (c. 38 500 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 42 km (26 miles) from Katowice (c. 317 300 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Ostrava (c. 313 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Sosnowiec (c. 227 300 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Gliwice (c. 198 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Zabrze (c. 192 200 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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 N of Jejkowice, Poland.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 18.4742° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.1356° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.513 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3 km N of Jejkowice, Poland Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-07-11 06:16:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-25 05:14:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 129 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.855 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us7000myih Id of event.
Event Code 7000myih An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000myih, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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