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Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, 9 km SSW of Asenovgrad, Bulgaria


Earthquake location 41.9413S, 24.8181WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Asenovgrad in Bulgaria on Friday. The temblor was reported at 01:15:05 / 1:15 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 24.8181 East, latitude 41.9413 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/02/18 / 2018-02-22 23:15:05 / February 22, 2018 @ 11:15 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us2000d6q4. Event ids that are associated: us2000d6q4.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Bulgaria (c. 7 149 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Plovdiv (c. 340 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Haskovo (c. 79 700 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Pazardzhik (c. 76 000 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Asenovgrad (c. 52 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Kŭrdzhali (c. 51 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Dimitrovgrad (c. 43 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Simeonovgrad, Panagyurishte, Karlovo.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 9 km SSW of Asenovgrad, Bulgaria.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 24.8181° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.9413° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SSW of Asenovgrad, Bulgaria Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-22 23:15:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-26 04:14:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.6 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 223 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 0.96 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us2000d6q4 Id of event.
Event Code 2000d6q4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d6q4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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