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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Tribunj in Croatia


Earthquake location 43.7903S, 15.7466WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Tribunj in Croatia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/09/18 / 2018-09-15 03:09:14 / September 15, 2018 @ 3:09 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000hg34. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000hg34. The temblor was reported at 04:09:14 / 4:09 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 15.7466 East, latitude 43.7903 North, depth = 10 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Split (c. 176 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Zadar (c. 71 300 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Šibenik (c. 37 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Solin (c. 15 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Sinj (c. 11 500 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Knin (c. 11 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Croatia (c. 4 491 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gospić, Omiš, Podstrana (min 5000 pop).

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 two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 3 km N of Tribunj, Croatia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 15.7466° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.7903° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km N of Tribunj, Croatia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-15 03:09:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-17 21:07:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 272 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 1.901 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 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 us2000hg34 Id of event.
Event Code 2000hg34 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hg34, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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