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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Grebocice in Poland


Earthquake location 51.6095S, 16.1851WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Grebocice in Poland. Id of earthquake: us2000bldc. Event ids that are associated: us2000bldc. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 16.1851 East, latitude 51.6095 North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was reported at 12:19:06 / 12:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 10/11/17 / 2017-11-10 11:19:06 / November 10, 2017 @ 11:19 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Wrocław (c. 634 900 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Zielona Góra (c. 118 400 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Legnica (c. 106 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Jelenia Góra (c. 87 300 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Lubin (c. 77 500 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Głogów (c. 68 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Komorniki, Koźmin Wielkopolski, Mysłakowice (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Poland (c. 38 500 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 1 km NE of Grebocice, Poland.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 16.1851° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.6095° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km NE of Grebocice, Poland Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-10 11:19:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-09 12:49:00 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 259 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 2.013 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us2000bldc Id of event.
Event Code 2000bldc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bldc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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