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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 4 km NE of Bileca, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Posted by admin on January 8, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 42.9009S, 18.4718WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Bileca in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 31.05 km (19 miles). Exact location, longitude 18.4718° East, latitude 42.9009° North, depth = 31.05 km. Id of earthquake: us10004cci. Event ids that are associated: us10004cci. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/01/16 / 2016-01-08 13:07:42 / January 8, 2016 @ 1:07 pm. The temblor was picked up at 14:07:42 / 2:07 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Podgorica (c. 136 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Mostar (c. 104 500 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Nikšić (c. 58 200 pop), 23 km (15 miles) from Trebinje (c. 33 200 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Dubrovnik (c. 28 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Herceg-Novi (c. 19 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Pljevlja (c. 19 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Bosnia and Herzegovina (c. 4 590 000 pop), Croatia (c. 4 491 000 pop), Montenegro (c. 667 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Goražde, Konjic, Mojkovac.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 4 km NE of Bileca, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 18.4718° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.9009° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km NE of Bileca, 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 2016-01-08 13:07:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-08 13:24:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 326 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 0.748 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 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 us10004cci Id of event.
Event Code 10004cci An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004cci, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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