Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 9 km NNE of Rostusa, North Macedonia

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Rostusa in North Macedonia. Unique identifier: us7000cddw. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000cddw. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 20.6539 East, latitude 41.6846 North, depth = 10.95 km. Global time and date of event 11/11/20 / 2020-11-11 14:25:14 / November 11, 2020 @ 2:25 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 14:25:14 / 2:25 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.95 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Skopje (c. 474 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Tirana (c. 374 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Prizren (c. 171 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Elbasan (c. 100 900 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Gjakovë (c. 94 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Bitola (c. 86 500 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Kumanovo (c. 76 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Partesh, Glanica, Isniq. Country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Macedonia (c. 2 062 000 pop), Kosovo (c. 1 800 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixty-seven 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	20.6539° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.6846° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.95 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km NNE of Rostusa, North Macedonia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-11-11 14:25:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-11-11 21:45:00	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	15	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	376	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	1.277	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	19	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	us7000cddw	Id of event.
Event Code	7000cddw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000cddw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.9 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

20.6539° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

41.6846° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10.95 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

9 km NNE of Rostusa, North Macedonia

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2020-11-11 14:25:14

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2020-11-11 21:45:00

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

4.1

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

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

376

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

1.277

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.89 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us7000cddw

Id of event.

Event Code

7000cddw

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us7000cddw,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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