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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Solin in Croatia


Earthquake location 43.6868S, 16.4003WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Solin in Croatia on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000k7hb. Unique identifier: us2000k7hb. The temblor was reported at 03:08:22 / 3:08 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 30/03/19 / 2019-03-30 02:08:22 / March 30, 2019 @ 2:08 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 16.4003° East, 43.6868° North, depth 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Bosnia and Herzegovina (c. 4 590 000 pop), Croatia (c. 4 491 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Donji Vakuf, Bugojno, Šipovo. Epicenter of the earthquake was 20 km (12 miles) from Split (c. 176 300 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Bugojno (c. 41 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Šibenik (c. 37 100 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Solin (c. 15 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Makarska (c. 13 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Livno (c. 11 700 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km NNW of Solin, Croatia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 16.4003° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.6868° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km NNW of Solin, Croatia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-30 02:08:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-30 02:32:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 298 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 1.99 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 32 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 us2000k7hb Id of event.
Event Code 2000k7hb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000k7hb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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