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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Shabla in Bulgaria

Posted by admin on July 15, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 43.3661S, 28.5652WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Shabla in Bulgaria. Unique identifier: us20002xkv. Ids that are associated to the event: us20002xkv. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/07/15 / 2015-07-15 08:30:38 / July 15, 2015 @ 8:30 am. The temblor was picked up at 11:30:38 / 11:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 28.5652 East, latitude 43.3661 North, depth = 20.4 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.4 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Bulgaria (c. 7 149 000 pop), Romania (c. 21 959 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cobadin, Cumpăna, Devnya (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Varna (c. 312 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Dobrich (c. 94 800 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Mangalia (c. 39 600 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Balchik (c. 13 000 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Kavarna (c. 11 200 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Zlatni Pyasatsi (c. 9 800 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 18 km S of Shabla, Bulgaria. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 28.5652° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.3661° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km S of Shabla, Bulgaria Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-15 08:30:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-15 21:35:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.2 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 223 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 0.12 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 153 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 us20002xkv Id of event.
Event Code 20002xkv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002xkv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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