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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 4 km NNW of Imotski, Croatia


Earthquake location 43.4889S, 17.1981WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Imotski in Croatia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:35:05 / 9:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 17.1981 East, latitude 43.4889 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us2000hang. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000hang. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/09/18 / 2018-09-07 20:35:05 / September 7, 2018 @ 8:35 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Travnik, Hadžići, Šipovo (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Split (c. 176 300 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Mostar (c. 104 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Bugojno (c. 41 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Travnik (c. 31 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Konjic (c. 16 000 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Solin (c. 15 900 pop). Close country/countries, Bosnia and Herzegovina (c. 4 590 000 pop), Croatia (c. 4 491 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 4 km NNW of Imotski, Croatia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 17.1981° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.4889° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km NNW of Imotski, Croatia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-07 20:35:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-08 15:01:17 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 2 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 259 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 1.847 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 24 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 us2000hang Id of event.
Event Code 2000hang An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hang, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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