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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Stari Bar in Montenegro


Earthquake location 42.0788S, 19.1851WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Stari Bar in Montenegro on Tuesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.7 km (4 miles). The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:45:53 / 5:45 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 19.1851° East, 42.0788° North, depth 5.7 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000cr71. Unique identifier: us2000cr71. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/01/18 / 2018-01-30 04:45:53 / January 30, 2018 @ 4:45 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fushë-Krujë, Nikšić, Mamurras (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Podgorica (c. 136 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Shkodër (c. 88 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Nikšić (c. 58 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Laç (c. 24 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Herceg-Novi (c. 19 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Montenegro (c. 667 000 pop).

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 4 km ESE of Stari Bar, Montenegro.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 19.1851° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.0788° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km ESE of Stari Bar, Montenegro Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-30 04:45:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-30 22:13:49 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 2 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 158 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 0.528 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us2000cr71 Id of event.
Event Code 2000cr71 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cr71, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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