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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Kosel in Macedonia


Earthquake location 41.1632S, 20.8854WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Kosel in Macedonia on Tuesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20009npq. Id of event: us20009npq. Global time and date of event 20/06/17 / 2017-06-20 13:10:35 / June 20, 2017 @ 1:10 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 20.8854° East, 41.1632° North, depth 10 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:10:35 / 2:10 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Çorovodë, Kuçovë. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Macedonia (c. 2 062 000 pop). Event epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Tirana (c. 374 800 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Elbasan (c. 100 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Bitola (c. 86 500 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Prilep (c. 73 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Korçë (c. 58 300 pop), 9 km (5 miles) from Ohrid (c. 54 900 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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 two and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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 ESE of Kosel, Macedonia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.8854° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.1632° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km ESE of Kosel, Macedonia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-06-20 13:10:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-20 17:16:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 0.536 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 us20009npq Id of event.
Event Code 20009npq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009npq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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