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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Srebrenik in Bosnia and Herzegovina


Earthquake location 44.6796S, 18.4456WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Srebrenik in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The temblor was detected at 08:05:30 / 8:05 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude 18.4456° East, latitude 44.6796° North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/07/19 / 2019-07-21 07:05:30 / July 21, 2019 @ 7:05 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us70004pyw. Unique identifier: us70004pyw.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sarajevo, Fojnica, Čelinac (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Bosnia and Herzegovina (c. 4 590 000 pop), Croatia (c. 4 491 000 pop). Event epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Sarajevo (c. 696 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Zenica (c. 164 400 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Tuzla (c. 142 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Slavonski Brod (c. 60 700 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Brčko (c. 39 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Bijeljina (c. 37 700 pop).

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 have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 4 km SW of Srebrenik, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 18.4456° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.6796° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SW of Srebrenik, 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 2019-07-21 07:05:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-21 07:23:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 274 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 2.14 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 us70004pyw Id of event.
Event Code 70004pyw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004pyw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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