A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Asenovgrad in Bulgaria. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.28 km (5 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/02/18 / 2018-02-21 23:41:59 / February 21, 2018 @ 11:41 pm. The temblor was picked up at 01:41:59 / 1:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 8.28 km, 24.9119° East, 42.0321° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d66r. Id of event: us2000d66r.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Radnevo, Krumovgrad, Kharmanli (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Plovdiv (c. 340 500 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Stara Zagora (c. 143 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Haskovo (c. 79 700 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Pazardzhik (c. 76 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Kazanlŭk (c. 55 200 pop), 4 km (3 miles) from Asenovgrad (c. 52 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Bulgaria (c. 7 149 000 pop).
Every 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 one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km ENE of Asenovgrad, Bulgaria. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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