Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Breznik in Bulgaria

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Breznik in Bulgaria. Global time and date of event 14/09/17 / 2017-09-14 01:53:19 / September 14, 2017 @ 1:53 am UTC/GMT. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:53:19 / 3:53 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 22.899° East, latitude 42.6704° North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us2000am21. Event ids that are associated: us2000am21. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 35 km (22 miles) from Sofia (c. 1 152 600 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Pernik (c. 82 500 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Blagoevgrad (c. 71 300 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Kyustendil (c. 48 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Pirot (c. 40 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Bulgaria (c. 7 149 000 pop), Serbia (c. 7 345 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ikhtiman, Delcevo, Makedonska Kamenica (min 5000 pop).

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 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 7 km S of Breznik, Bulgaria.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	22.899° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	42.6704° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km S of Breznik, Bulgaria	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-09-14 01:53:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-14 02:10:55	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	120	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	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	159	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	2.015	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	62	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	us2000am21	Id of event.
Event Code	2000am21	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000am21,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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