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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 8 km ESE of Lasinja, Croatia


Earthquake location 45.5037S, 15.9666WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Lasinja in Croatia on Friday. Unique identifier: us7000d0aq. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000d0aq. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 15.9666° East, 45.5037° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/01/21 / 2021-01-15 12:01:37 / January 15, 2021 @ 12:01 pm. The temblor was reported at 12:01:37 / 12:01 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Poljčane, Štore, Varaždin. Epicenter of the earthquake was 34 km (21 miles) from Zagreb – Centar (c. 800 000 pop), 35 km (21 miles) from Zagreb (c. 699 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Bihać (c. 75 600 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Sesvete (c. 52 400 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Karlovac (c. 48 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Varaždin (c. 41 800 pop). Close country/countries, Bosnia and Herzegovina (c. 4 590 000 pop), Croatia (c. 4 491 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 five, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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: 8 km ESE of Lasinja, Croatia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 15.9666° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.5037° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km ESE of Lasinja, Croatia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-15 12:01:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-17 22:46:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 1.119 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us7000d0aq Id of event.
Event Code 7000d0aq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d0aq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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