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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Novo Selo in Macedonia

Posted by admin on March 11, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 41.4946S, 22.9195WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Novo Selo in Macedonia on Sunday. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:17:19 / 12:17 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 22.9195 East, latitude 41.4946 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/02/16 / 2016-02-28 11:17:19 / February 28, 2016 @ 11:17 am. Id of earthquake: us10004tce. Event ids that are associated: us10004tce. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, Bulgaria (c. 7 149 000 pop), Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Macedonia (c. 2 062 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Thessaloníki (c. 354 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Blagoevgrad (c. 71 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Sérres (c. 58 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Kyustendil (c. 48 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Shtip (c. 48 300 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Strumica (c. 45 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Thessaloníki, Sykiés, Meneméni (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km NNE of Novo Selo, Macedonia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 22.9195° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.4946° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km NNE of Novo Selo, Macedonia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-28 11:17:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-11 12:47:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 1.146 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 26 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 us10004tce Id of event.
Event Code 10004tce An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004tce, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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