Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag strikes near Creshevo in Macedonia

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Creshevo in Macedonia on Monday. The epicenter was at a depth of 1.6 km (1 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/09/16 / 2016-09-12 12:19:05 / September 12, 2016 @ 12:19 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 21.49 East, latitude 42.02 North, depth = 1.6 km. The temblor was detected at 14:19:05 / 2:19 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us10006p1q. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006p1q.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vinica, Llazicë, Glogovac. Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Pristina (c. 550 000 pop), 6 km (3 miles) from Skopje (c. 474 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Prizren (c. 171 500 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Kumanovo (c. 76 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Prilep (c. 73 800 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Tetovo (c. 72 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Macedonia (c. 2 062 000 pop), Kosovo (c. 1 800 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km SSW of Creshevo, Macedonia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	21.49° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	42.02° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km SSW of Creshevo, Macedonia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-09-12 12:19:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-09-12 21:29:29	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	3.8	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	211	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		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.8 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap		The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us10006p1q	Id of event.
Event Code	10006p1q	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006p1q,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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