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Light earthquake 4 mag, 6 km SW of Ilici, Bosnia and Herzegovina


Earthquake location 43.3079S, 17.7138WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Ilici in Bosnia and Herzegovina on Monday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/08/17 / 2017-08-28 04:01:52 / August 28, 2017 @ 4:01 am. The temblor was detected at 05:01:52 / 5:01 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 17.7138° East, latitude 43.3079° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000acd8. Unique identifier: us2000acd8.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mahala, Pale, Foča (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Sarajevo (c. 696 700 pop), 9 km (5 miles) from Mostar (c. 104 500 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Bugojno (c. 41 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Trebinje (c. 33 200 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Dubrovnik (c. 28 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Visoko (c. 17 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Bosnia and Herzegovina (c. 4 590 000 pop), Croatia (c. 4 491 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 6 km SW of Ilici, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 17.7138° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.3079° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SW of Ilici, 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 2017-08-28 04:01:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-28 04:35:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.3 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 247 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 1.436 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 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 us2000acd8 Id of event.
Event Code 2000acd8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000acd8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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