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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Radishani in Macedonia


Earthquake location 42.03S, 21.47WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Radishani in Macedonia. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/09/16 / 2016-09-13 23:32:28 / September 13, 2016 @ 11:32 pm. Exact location, longitude 21.47° East, latitude 42.03° North, depth = 3.2 km. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:32:28 / 1:32 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.2 km (2 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10006pd4. Unique identifier: us10006pd4.

Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Pristina (c. 550 000 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Skopje (c. 474 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Prizren (c. 171 500 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Kumanovo (c. 76 300 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Prilep (c. 73 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kavadarci, Obiliq, Negotino. Nearby country/countries, Macedonia (c. 2 062 000 pop), Kosovo (c. 1 800 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km SSE of Radishani, Macedonia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 21.47° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.03° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SSE of Radishani, Macedonia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-13 23:32:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-14 00:19:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 150 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 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 ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10006pd4 Id of event.
Event Code 10006pd4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006pd4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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