Bělá nad Radbuzou is a municipality in the Domažlicko area in the Plzeň Region. The mayor is Libor Picka (STAN). After the earthquake the mayor said he had no information about any damage or problems. [1] The seismic station in Přimda in the Tachovsko area lies about nine kilometres north of the municipality.[1] In the night to 23 October 2026 an earthquake of magnitude 3.4 on the Richter scale struck the surroundings of the municipality, with its epicentre near Bělá nad Radbuzou and its focus at a depth of about nine kilometres. [1]
The tremors were also felt by people on the Bavarian side of the border, for example in the municipalities of Waidhaus and Eslarn, and according to reports to the map of the Institute of Geophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, people more than 40 kilometres from the municipality registered them as well. The strongest earthquake in the vicinity of Přimda was measured in 1902 with a magnitude of 4.4, and the last stronger tremor there was on 15 October 2022 with a magnitude of 2.2. [1]
Chronology
- — In the Plzeň Region on 23 October 2026 at 0:34 an earthquake of magnitude 3.4 on the Richter scale was recorded, with its epicentre near Bělá nad Radbuzou and its focus at a depth of about nine kilometres. → Czech News Agency / České noviny Blesk.cz