Minor quakes registered in Cheb region

The Geophysical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences registered mild seismic tremors on the border of the Cheb and Sokolov regions during the night and early morning hours of Sunday. The strongest ones had a magnitude slightly above 2 on the Richter scale. The epicenter of the quake was east of Luby near Cheb, about ten kilometres underground, the institute reported.

Mild seismic quakes are fairly common in this area, but even the strongest tremors rarely cross a magnitude of 3. The strongest earthquake in the Cheb region occurred in 1985 and had a magnitude of 4.6.