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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Petrinja in Croatia


Earthquake location 45.4736S, 16.2686WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Petrinja in Croatia on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/01/21 / 2021-01-05 06:11:42 / January 5, 2021 @ 6:11 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 06:11:42 / 6:11 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude 16.2686° East, latitude 45.4736° North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us6000d5pk. Event ids that are associated: us6000d5pk.

Close country/countries, Bosnia and Herzegovina (c. 4 590 000 pop), Croatia (c. 4 491 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Škocjan, Koprivnica, Semič (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 44 km (27 miles) from Zagreb – Centar (c. 800 000 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Zagreb (c. 699 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Bihać (c. 75 600 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Sesvete (c. 52 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Karlovac (c. 48 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Stenjevec (c. 41 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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 NNW of Petrinja, Croatia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 16.2686° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.4736° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4 km NNW of Petrinja, Croatia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-05 06:11:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-05 08:37:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 246 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 0.972 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us6000d5pk Id of event.
Event Code 6000d5pk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d5pk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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