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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 22 km W of Glamoc, Bosnia and Herzegovina


Earthquake location 44.0299S, 16.5662WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Glamoc in Bosnia and Herzegovina on Thursday. The temblor was picked up at 04:33:04 / 4:33 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 16.5662 East, latitude 44.0299 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us2000h57f. Event ids that are associated: us2000h57f. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 30/08/18 / 2018-08-30 03:33:04 / August 30, 2018 @ 3:33 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Čelinac, Banja Luka, Mejdan – Obilićevo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Bosnia and Herzegovina (c. 4 590 000 pop), Croatia (c. 4 491 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Banja Luka (c. 221 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Split (c. 176 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Bugojno (c. 41 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Šibenik (c. 37 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Travnik (c. 31 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Solin (c. 15 900 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Mrkonjić Grad (c. 14 700 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 has struck near.

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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. 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: 22 km W of Glamoc, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 16.5662° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.0299° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km W of Glamoc, Bosnia and Herzegovina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-30 03:33:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-30 04:06:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 9 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 329 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 2.353 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 19 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000h57f Id of event.
Event Code 2000h57f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000h57f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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