Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Rudna in Poland

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Rudna in Poland on Wednesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nzrt. Unique identifier: us7000nzrt. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 16.3365 East, latitude 51.5341 North, depth = 9.759 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:57:35 / 9:57 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.759 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/12/24 / 2024-12-18 09:57:35 / December 18, 2024 @ 9:57 am.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kórnik, Głuszyca, Jarocin (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Poland (c. 38 500 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Wrocław (c. 634 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Wałbrzych (c. 127 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Zielona Góra (c. 118 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Legnica (c. 106 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Jelenia Góra (c. 87 300 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Lubin (c. 77 500 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km ENE of Rudna, Poland. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	16.3365° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.5341° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.759 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km ENE of Rudna, Poland	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-12-18 09:57:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-05 12:23:30	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	298	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	47	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.185	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.73 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	77	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	us7000nzrt	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nzrt	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nzrt,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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