Residents of several Ukrainian cities reported tremors, but seismologists did not register them

On the night of November 10, eyewitnesses in Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia, Dnipro and Cherkasy described shaking walls and rattling dishes. However, neither Ukrainian nor European seismological centers registered an earthquake. At the same time, the Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed strikes on four electrical substations.

Aziz KarimovFirst published on tafs uz 10 November 2026 at 13:592 min read

The key facts

Eyewitnesses in four or five Ukrainian cities reported tremors and vibrations in their homes
Neither the report of Ukraine's Main Special Control Center nor the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre's list of felt earthquakes contains any earthquake for that night
The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed strikes on four electrical substations in three regions

Reports of tremors with no seismic record

On the night of November 10, residents of Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia and Dnipro reported tremors that made the walls of their homes shake; according to eyewitnesses, in some apartments the vibration opened doors and caused plaster to crumble. Residents of Dnipro and Cherkasy also wrote about rattling dishes, and the same channels mentioned explosions in Kyiv, Zhytomyr and Vinnytsia. These reports were relayed by the UNIAN news agency; Life.ru also writes about them.

Seismological centers did not confirm the event

At the same time, the report of Ukraine's Main Special Control Center for the night in question contains no record of an earthquake, and no such event appears in the public list of felt earthquakes of the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre. Thus, at this point the residents' sensations are not confirmed by instrumental data from seismologists, and the nature of the described vibration has not been officially explained.

Strikes on electrical substations

According to Life.ru, citing the Russian Ministry of Defense, Russian forces struck four electrical substations in three regions of Ukraine: two energy facilities in Kyiv region, and two more in Dnipropetrovsk and Poltava regions. The publication links the reports of tremors to that night, but no confirmed seismic cause of the shaking is named in the sources.