Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Trogir in Croatia


Earthquake location 43.5085S, 16.2975WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Trogir in Croatia on Friday. The temblor was picked up at 13:57:01 / 1:57 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us20007zhe. Ids that are associated to the event: us20007zhe. Exact location of earthquake, 16.2975° East, 43.5085° North, depth 21.91 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/12/16 / 2016-12-09 12:57:01 / December 9, 2016 @ 12:57 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 21.91 km (14 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Biograd na Moru, Tomislavgrad, Bosansko Grahovo. Country/countries that might be effected, Bosnia and Herzegovina (c. 4 590 000 pop), Croatia (c. 4 491 000 pop). Event epicenter was 11 km (7 miles) from Split (c. 176 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Šibenik (c. 37 100 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Solin (c. 15 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Makarska (c. 13 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Livno (c. 11 700 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Sinj (c. 11 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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 have been detected nearby.

Did you feel it?

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

Copyright © 2016 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 16.2975° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.5085° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km E of Trogir, Croatia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-09 12:57:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-09 14:55:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 9 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.8 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 303 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 1.799 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 17 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20007zhe Id of event.
Event Code 20007zhe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007zhe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply