A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Ohrid in Macedonia on Friday. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 20.8376° East, 41.1332° North. Global time and date of event 07/07/17 / 2017-07-07 22:54:33 / July 7, 2017 @ 10:54 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000980i. Unique identifier: us1000980i. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 23:54:33 / 11:54 pm (local time epicenter). 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 Peqin, Kamenjane, Čaška. Earthquake epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Tirana (c. 374 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Elbasan (c. 100 900 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Bitola (c. 86 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Prilep (c. 73 800 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Korçë (c. 58 300 pop), 3 km (2 miles) from Ohrid (c. 54 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Macedonia (c. 2 062 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km ENE of Ohrid, Macedonia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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