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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 22 km SSW of Plužine, Montenegro


Earthquake location 42.9775S, 18.7007WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Plužine in Montenegro. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/05/25 / 2025-05-11 11:46:53 / May 11, 2025 @ 11:46 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pyn6. Unique identifier: us7000pyn6. The temblor was reported at 11:46:53 / 11:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 18.7007 East, latitude 42.9775 North, depth = 10 km.

The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Podgorica (c. 136 500 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Mostar (c. 104 500 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Nikšić (c. 58 200 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Trebinje (c. 33 200 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Dubrovnik (c. 28 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Herceg-Novi (c. 19 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pale, Andrijevica, Metković. Nearby country/countries, Bosnia and Herzegovina (c. 4 590 000 pop), Croatia (c. 4 491 000 pop), Montenegro (c. 667 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

Questions or comments?

How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 22 km SSW of Plužine, Montenegro. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 18.7007° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.9775° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22 km SSW of Plužine, Montenegro Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-05-11 11:46:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-02 10:26:33 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 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 54 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.686 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us7000pyn6 Id of event.
Event Code 7000pyn6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pyn6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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