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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Rudna in Poland

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Rudna in Poland. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/09/25 / 2025-09-12 00:42:10 / September 12, 2025 @ 12:42 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 16.266° East, latitude 51.5005° North, depth = 9.361 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.361 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 00:42:10 / 12:42 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000qvl9. Unique identifier: us7000qvl9.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Zgorzelec, Puszczykowo, Oława (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Poland (c. 38 500 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Wrocław (c. 634 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Wałbrzych (c. 127 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Zielona Góra (c. 118 400 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Legnica (c. 106 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Jelenia Góra (c. 87 300 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Lubin (c. 77 500 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Głogów (c. 68 500 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 1 km S of Rudna, Poland. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	16.266° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.5005° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.361 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1 km S 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	2025-09-12 00:42:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-12 02:44:43	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	312	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	66	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.152	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	47	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	us7000qvl9	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qvl9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qvl9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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