SID - Earthquake of 25th August 2025

Earthquake of 25^th August 2025

Date and time:	25.08.2025, 12:51:00 CEST
Magnitude:	2.5
Region:	Czech Republic, Orlík water reservoir, Klučenice
Coordinates:	49.549° N, 14.215° E
Distance from NPP Temelin:	42 km
Distance from NPP Dukovany:	150 km

Additional info:
The earthquake was felt by people near the epicentre. If you felt it too you can report your experience here.
No significant damage to buildings or infrastructure is expected.
Another even stronger shock with magnitude 2.7 followed at 17:22 CEST.
Weak earthquakes from this area are observed quite frequently. The strongest earthquake so far from the Orlík reservoir region of 13.1.2007 with magnitude 2.3 was felt by many people in the surrounding area.

Seismogram of the earthquake from stations of the IPE local seismological networks monitoring the Czech NPPs. The upper track is from Temelín network and the lower one from Dukovany network. Time in the seismograms is in UTC (CEST - 2 hours). Vertical axis shows ground velocity in mm/s.