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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Srebrenik in Bosnia and Herzegovina


Earthquake location 44.6641S, 18.5108WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Srebrenik in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Exact location of event, depth 7.61 km, 18.5108° East, 44.6641° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.61 km (5 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 30/08/19 / 2019-08-30 13:01:35 / August 30, 2019 @ 1:01 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us70005a7c. Event ids that are associated: us70005a7c. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:01:35 / 2:01 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Sarajevo (c. 696 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Zenica (c. 164 400 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Tuzla (c. 142 500 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Osijek (c. 88 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Slavonski Brod (c. 60 700 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Šabac (c. 55 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Sremska Mitrovica (c. 39 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Višnjevac, Divičani, Osijek. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Bosnia and Herzegovina (c. 4 590 000 pop), Croatia (c. 4 491 000 pop), Serbia (c. 7 345 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 5 km SSE of Srebrenik, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 18.5108° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.6641° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SSE 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 2019-08-30 13:01:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-30 13:44:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.5 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 358 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 2.179 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 29 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 us70005a7c Id of event.
Event Code 70005a7c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005a7c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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