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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Kobarid in Slovenia


Earthquake location 46.2908S, 13.5582WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Kobarid in Slovenia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 13.5582 East, latitude 46.2908 North, depth = 10.19 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.19 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000aq3d. Unique identifier: us7000aq3d. The temblor was picked up at 02:50:57 / 2:50 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/07/20 / 2020-07-17 02:50:57 / July 17, 2020 @ 2:50 am.

Epicenter of the event was 78 km (48 miles) from Ljubljana (c. 272 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Trieste (c. 187 100 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Udine (c. 97 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Klagenfurt am Wörthersee (c. 90 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Villach (c. 58 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Pordenone (c. 49 900 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Brugnera, Sacile, Eberndorf (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Austria (c. 8 205 000 pop), Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop), Slovenia (c. 2 007 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km NNW of Kobarid, Slovenia. This data 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 13.5582° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.2908° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km NNW of Kobarid, Slovenia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-17 02:50:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-17 03:42:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 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 247 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 0.152 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 26 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 us7000aq3d Id of event.
Event Code 7000aq3d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000aq3d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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