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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Skopje in Macedonia

Posted by admin on September 12, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 42.0122S, 21.4494WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Skopje in Macedonia. Event id: us10006p3d. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006p3d. Exact location of event, depth 9.98 km, 21.4494° East, 42.0122° North. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:53:54 / 7:53 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/09/16 / 2016-09-12 17:53:54 / September 12, 2016 @ 5:53 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.98 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kukës, Zrnovci, (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Macedonia (c. 2 062 000 pop), Kosovo (c. 1 800 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Pristina (c. 550 000 pop), 2 km (1 miles) from Skopje (c. 474 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Prizren (c. 171 500 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Kumanovo (c. 76 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Prilep (c. 73 800 pop), 39 km (25 miles) from Tetovo (c. 72 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km NE of Skopje, Macedonia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 21.4494° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.0122° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km NE of Skopje, 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 17:53:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-12 22:53:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 11 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5 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 228 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 1.361 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 31 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 us10006p3d Id of event.
Event Code 10006p3d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006p3d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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