Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Small World Earthquakes

Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 4 km NE of Starcevica, Bosnia and Herzegovina


Earthquake location 44.7856S, 17.2508WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Starcevica in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Global time and date of event 15/08/20 / 2020-08-15 18:26:15 / August 15, 2020 @ 6:26 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us6000bfgp. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000bfgp. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:26:15 / 6:26 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 17.2508° East, latitude 44.7856° North, depth = 9.98 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.98 km (6 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Bosnia and Herzegovina (c. 4 590 000 pop), Croatia (c. 4 491 000 pop). The epicenter was 5 km (3 miles) from Banja Luka (c. 221 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Slavonski Brod (c. 60 700 pop), 47 km (30 miles) from Prijedor (c. 36 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Travnik (c. 31 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Doboj (c. 27 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Novi Travnik, Bosanski Novi, Žepče (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

Questions or comments?

Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km NE of Starcevica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2020 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 17.2508° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.7856° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4 km NE of Starcevica, Bosnia and Herzegovina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-15 18:26:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-16 05:14:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 121 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 0.06 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 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 us6000bfgp Id of event.
Event Code 6000bfgp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000bfgp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply