A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Otocac in Croatia on Sunday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005ft1. Id of event: us10005ft1. The temblor was picked up at 03:45:30 / 3:45 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.22 km (3 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/05/16 / 2016-05-08 01:45:30 / May 8, 2016 @ 1:45 am. Exact location of event, depth 5.22 km, 15.2923° East, 44.9403° North.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Drenova, Osilnica, Semič (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Bihać (c. 75 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Karlovac (c. 48 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Cazin (c. 21 700 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Velika Kladuša (c. 19 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Bosanska Krupa (c. 15 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Bosnia and Herzegovina (c. 4 590 000 pop), Croatia (c. 4 491 000 pop).
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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 8 km NNE of Otocac, Croatia.
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