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Unusual earthquake swarm on the line of the Trans-European Suture Zone; series of small, shallow quakes, causing cracks in buildings and frozen ground. Cracks in the ground were 2 kilometers long and 1-2 centimeters wide. [5] 20 November 2004 Czarny Dunajec: 4.7 Damage to buildings including schools and a church [6] 6 January 2012 Żerków: 3.8
The focal mechanism of the earthquake was determined to be a strike slip fault with some thrust elements, indicating a complicated faulting sequence. [10] [7] [11] The estimated size of the Pohang earthquake's seismic fault is 4–5 km broad and 7–8 km long, based on the distribution of aftershocks that happened on the main fault plane. [10]
Earthquakes (6.0+ M w) between 1900 and 2017 Earthquakes are caused by movements within the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle.They range from weak events detectable only by seismometers, to sudden and violent events lasting many minutes which have caused some of the greatest disasters in human history.
An earthquake was registered in that part of Poland at the time. Seventy-six miners were brought to the surface, including 17 who were hospitalized immediately after the quake.
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A miner who went missing after an earthquake shook Poland's Rydultowy coal mine has been found alive more than two days after the accident that killed one and injured 17 other workers, local ...
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The group was underwater when a 7.2 magnitude earthquake and string of aftershocks shook the country, the videographer said. Watch scuba divers grab onto reef as swarm of underwater earthquakes ...