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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Jankovec in Macedonia


Earthquake location 41.1896S, 20.9651WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Jankovec in Macedonia on Monday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude 20.9651° East, latitude 41.1896° North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us100096aj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100096aj. The temblor was picked up at 02:54:12 / 2:54 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/07/17 / 2017-07-03 01:54:12 / July 3, 2017 @ 1:54 am.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Elbasan (c. 100 900 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Bitola (c. 86 500 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Prilep (c. 73 800 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Korçë (c. 58 300 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Ohrid (c. 54 900 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bogovinje, Kastoriá, Čaška (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Macedonia (c. 2 062 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km NNW of Jankovec, Macedonia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.9651° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.1896° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km NNW of Jankovec, Macedonia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-03 01:54:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-09 23:51:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 178 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 0.516 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us100096aj Id of event.
Event Code 100096aj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100096aj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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