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Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Strazske in Slovakia


Earthquake location 48.8127S, 21.8106WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Strazske in Slovakia. Id of earthquake: us60009b2t. Event ids that are associated: us60009b2t. The temblor was detected at 00:18:26 / 12:18 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 21.8106 East, latitude 48.8127 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/04/20 / 2020-04-23 23:18:26 / April 23, 2020 @ 11:18 pm.

Event epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Košice (c. 236 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Uzhhorod (c. 117 900 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Prešov (c. 94 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Mukacheve (c. 81 600 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Michalovce (c. 40 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kemecse, Rakamaz, Mukacheve. Close country/countries that might be effected, Slovakia (c. 5 455 000 pop), Ukraine (c. 45 416 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 7 km SSW of Strazske, Slovakia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 21.8106° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 48.8127° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km SSW of Strazske, Slovakia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-23 23:18:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-24 00:16:50 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 168 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 1.56 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us60009b2t Id of event.
Event Code 60009b2t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60009b2t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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