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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Gracac in Croatia


Earthquake location 44.2425S, 16.0027WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Gracac in Croatia on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 15.35 km (10 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us70007jn3. Unique identifier: us70007jn3. The temblor was picked up at 05:10:13 / 5:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 16.0027° East, 44.2425° North, depth 15.35 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/02/20 / 2020-02-06 04:10:13 / February 6, 2020 @ 4:10 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Split, Mrkonjić Grad, Solin (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Bosnia and Herzegovina (c. 4 590 000 pop), Croatia (c. 4 491 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Split (c. 176 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Bihać (c. 75 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Zadar (c. 71 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Šibenik (c. 37 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Cazin (c. 21 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Solin (c. 15 900 pop).

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 has struck near. 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.

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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: 13 km ESE of Gracac, Croatia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 16.0027° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.2425° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km ESE of Gracac, Croatia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-02-06 04:10:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-06 04:27:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 246 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 2.162 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us70007jn3 Id of event.
Event Code 70007jn3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007jn3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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