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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Croatia


Earthquake location 42.6482S, 18.2223WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, Croatia kilometers (0 miles) from Croatia. Event id: us2000g0p1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000g0p1. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 06:06:04 / 6:06 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/07/18 / 2018-07-09 06:06:04 / July 9, 2018 @ 6:06 am. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 18.2223° East, 42.6482° North.

Close country/countries, Bosnia and Herzegovina (c. 4 590 000 pop), Croatia (c. 4 491 000 pop), Montenegro (c. 667 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 61 km (38 miles) from Nikšić (c. 58 200 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Trebinje (c. 33 200 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Dubrovnik (c. 28 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Herceg-Novi (c. 19 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Budva (c. 18 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Čitluk, Danilovgrad, Plužine (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Croatia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 18.2223° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.6482° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Croatia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-09 06:06:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-09 21:00:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 130 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 0.798 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us2000g0p1 Id of event.
Event Code 2000g0p1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000g0p1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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