SID - Earthquake of 19th July 2026

Earthquake of 19^th July 2026

Date and time:	19.07.2026, 13:00:23 CEST
Magnitude:	1.8
Region:	Czech Republic, Želnava
Coordinates:	48.833° N, 13.980° E
Distance from NPP Temelin:	48 km
Distance from NPP Dukovany:	160 km

Additional info:
The earthquake could have been felt by people in the Czech Republic, but no damage to buildings or infrastructure is expected here.
The hypocentral depth was about 5 km. Another weaker earthquake with magnitude 0.8 followed an hour later at 14:10 CEST.
More details can be found at the IPE website.

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.