EMSC

European Mediterranean Seismological Centre

Earthquake mb 4.4 close to the city of Ladushkin September 21st, 2004, 11:05 UTC
Earthquake mb 5.0 close to the city of Primorsk September 21st, 2004, 13:32 UTC
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mb 4.4 11:05 UTC Ladushkin : EMSC location
mb 5.0 13:32 UTC Primorsk : EMSC location

Focal Mechanisms provided by INGV and Harvard
for mb5.0 21/09 13:32 UTC event

These events are located in a region of very low seismic hazard (see below):

European Mediterranean Seismic Hazard Map
(ESC-SESAME; 1:5 000 000; February 2003)
Editors : D. Giardini, M.J. Jimenez and G.Grünthal

If you have felt this earthquake or if you have relevant information to share, 
please mail to mazet@emsc-csem.org
These information will be compiled and accessible on this web site.

More information on:

Russian News and Information Agency ; Mosnews.com ; Pravda.ru
Information on seismicity in Lithuania (in Lithuanian and english)
Geophysical Service of Russian Academy of Sciences (in Russian)
Geophysical Service of Russian Academy of Sciences (in English)
Special web page of Geophysical Service of Russian Academy of Sciences
IGF of Warsaw (in Polish). Historical seismicity of Poland.
Observations in Poland (by Pawel Wiejacz ; Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland)
Surface Deformation associated to the Kaliningrad earthquake ? (by Pawel Wiejacz ; Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland)

Waveform data available at ORFEUS

This earthquake has been felt all over Kaliningrad region and Lithuania but also in Latvia, Estonia, Belarus and until Finland, Denmark, Sweden and even Norway (see testimonies below).

See testimonies

Damages reported so far :
- Kaliningrad : some old brick flues on roofs
- Kaliningrad : some walls seemlessly cracked
- Near Svetlogorsk : ground prosat under railways

For more details, see the Real Time Seismicity.
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