Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Petrinja in Croatia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Petrinja in Croatia on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/01/21 / 2021-01-09 21:29:10 / January 9, 2021 @ 9:29 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000d73g. Id of event: us6000d73g. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 16.3038 East, latitude 45.4208 North, depth = 8.71 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.71 km (5 miles). The temblor was reported at 21:29:10 / 9:29 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 50 km (31 miles) from Zagreb – Centar (c. 800 000 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Zagreb (c. 699 000 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Banja Luka (c. 221 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Bihać (c. 75 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Sesvete (c. 52 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Karlovac (c. 48 100 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Varaždin (c. 41 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Bosnia and Herzegovina (c. 4 590 000 pop), Croatia (c. 4 491 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mejdan – Obilićevo, Rogatec, Sevnica.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 2 km SSE of Petrinja, Croatia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	16.3038° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	45.4208° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.71 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2 km SSE of Petrinja, Croatia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2021-01-09 21:29:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-01-09 21:52:24	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.9	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	357	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	0.916	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.01 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	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000d73g	Id of event.
Event Code	6000d73g	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000d73g,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.8 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

16.3038° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

45.4208° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

8.71 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

2 km SSE of Petrinja, Croatia

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2021-01-09 21:29:10

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2021-01-09 21:52:24

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

The total number of felt reports

CDI

4.9

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

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

357

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.916

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.01 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us6000d73g

Id of event.

Event Code

6000d73g

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us6000d73g,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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