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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Podgorica in Montenegro


Earthquake location 42.4584S, 19.429WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Podgorica in Montenegro. Global time and date of event 06/07/15 / 2015-07-06 13:42:17 / July 6, 2015 @ 1:42 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 15:42:17 / 3:42 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.8 km (6 miles). Event id: us10002nna. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002nna. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 19.429 East, latitude 42.4584 North, depth = 9.8 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Laç, Bileća, Istok (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) from Podgorica (c. 136 500 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Gjakovë (c. 94 200 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Shkodër (c. 88 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Pejë (c. 81 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Nikšić (c. 58 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Deçan (c. 50 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Montenegro (c. 667 000 pop), Kosovo (c. 1 800 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 13 km E of Podgorica, Montenegro.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 19.429° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.4584° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km E of Podgorica, Montenegro Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-06 13:42:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-06 16:16:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 298 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.13 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 171 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10002nna Id of event.
Event Code 10002nna An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002nna, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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