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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Nova Zagora in Bulgaria

Posted by admin on April 18, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 42.51S, 26.0468WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Nova Zagora in Bulgaria. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 26.0468 East, latitude 42.51 North, depth = 16.53 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 18/04/16 / 2016-04-18 06:46:16 / April 18, 2016 @ 6:46 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 16.53 km (10 miles). The temblor was picked up at 09:46:16 / 9:46 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20005je7. Unique identifier: us20005je7.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Veliki Preslav, Sevlievo, Sredets. Close country/countries, Bulgaria (c. 7 149 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Stara Zagora (c. 143 400 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Sliven (c. 96 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Yambol (c. 80 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Haskovo (c. 79 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Veliko Tŭrnovo (c. 66 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Gabrovo (c. 66 200 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Kazanlŭk (c. 55 200 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 has occurred nearby. 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. 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: 3 km NE of Nova Zagora, Bulgaria.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 26.0468° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.51° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km NE of Nova Zagora, Bulgaria Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-18 06:46:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-18 07:20:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 312 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 1.613 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 32 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 us20005je7 Id of event.
Event Code 20005je7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005je7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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