Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Zagreb in Croatia

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Zagreb in Croatia. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:49:52 / 8:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 16.015° East, 45.8203° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us70008ews. Event ids that are associated: us70008ews. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/03/20 / 2020-03-23 19:49:52 / March 23, 2020 @ 7:49 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Oplotnica, Vojnik, Destrnik (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Croatia (c. 4 491 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 3 km (2 miles) from Zagreb – Centar (c. 800 000 pop), 3 km (2 miles) from Zagreb (c. 699 000 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Sesvete (c. 52 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Karlovac (c. 48 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Varaždin (c. 41 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km ENE of Zagreb, Croatia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	16.015° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	45.8203° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km ENE of Zagreb, Croatia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-03-23 19:49:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-24 01:44:48	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	4.7	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	130	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	0.838	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.66 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	154	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	us70008ews	Id of event.
Event Code	70008ews	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70008ews,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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