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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Rakovica in Croatia


Earthquake location 44.9739S, 15.6659WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Rakovica in Croatia. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/05/24 / 2024-05-01 17:03:51 / May 1, 2024 @ 5:03 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.798 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mvhh. Id of event: us6000mvhh. The temblor was detected at 17:03:51 / 5:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 15.6659 East, latitude 44.9739 North, depth = 12.798 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Bosnia and Herzegovina (c. 4 590 000 pop), Croatia (c. 4 491 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Brezovica, Kostel, Semič. Epicenter of the event was 24 km (15 miles) from Bihać (c. 75 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Karlovac (c. 48 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Prijedor (c. 36 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Sisak (c. 35 700 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Cazin (c. 21 700 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Velika Kladuša (c. 19 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km SSE of Rakovica, Croatia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 15.6659° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.9739° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.798 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km SSE of Rakovica, Croatia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-01 17:03:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-09 15:34:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 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 223 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 80 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.103 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 18 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000mvhh Id of event.
Event Code 6000mvhh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mvhh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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