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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Turija in Serbia


Earthquake location 44.4803S, 21.6365WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Turija in Serbia on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.99 km (11 miles). Id of earthquake: us200062z2. Event ids that are associated: us200062z2. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/06/16 / 2016-06-09 02:05:43 / June 9, 2016 @ 2:05 am. Exact location of event, longitude 21.6365 East, latitude 44.4803 North, depth = 16.99 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 04:05:43 / 4:05 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Kragujevac (c. 147 500 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Drobeta-Turnu Severin (c. 102 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Pančevo (c. 76 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Smederevo (c. 62 000 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Zaječar (c. 49 800 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Požarevac (c. 41 700 pop). Close country/countries, Romania (c. 21 959 000 pop), Serbia (c. 7 345 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pančevo, Aranđelovac, Vladimirovac (min 5000 pop).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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: 4 km S of Turija, Serbia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 21.6365° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.4803° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km S of Turija, Serbia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-09 02:05:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-09 02:19:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 284 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 1.241 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 30 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 us200062z2 Id of event.
Event Code 200062z2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200062z2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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