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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Kasina in Croatia


Earthquake location 45.8957S, 15.9477WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Kasina in Croatia on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 15.9477 East, latitude 45.8957 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 07:01:20 / 7:01 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/03/20 / 2020-03-22 06:01:20 / March 22, 2020 @ 6:01 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008dxz. Id of event: us70008dxz.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Croatia (c. 4 491 000 pop), Slovenia (c. 2 007 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 9 km (6 miles) from Zagreb – Centar (c. 800 000 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Zagreb (c. 699 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Maribor (c. 95 200 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Sesvete (c. 52 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Karlovac (c. 48 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Varaždin (c. 41 800 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Stenjevec (c. 41 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vuzenica, Videm, Csurgó (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 4 km WSW of Kasina, Croatia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 15.9477° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.8957° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km WSW of Kasina, Croatia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-22 06:01:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-22 06:15:26 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 326 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 0.813 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 20 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70008dxz Id of event.
Event Code 70008dxz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008dxz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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