Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake 4 mag, 17 km WSW of Nidri, Greece


Earthquake location 38.6758S, 20.5125WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Nidri in Greece on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: us10007vz0. Unique identifier: us10007vz0. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 22:45:50 / 10:45 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 26.29 km, 20.5125° East, 38.6758° North. Global time and date of event 28/01/17 / 2017-01-28 21:45:50 / January 28, 2017 @ 9:45 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 26.29 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mesolóngi, Agrínio, Áyios Konstandínos (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (48 miles) from Agrínio (c. 46 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Árta (c. 19 500 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Préveza (c. 17 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Mesolóngi (c. 12 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Lefkáda (c. 8 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

Did you feel the quake?

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: 17 km WSW of Nidri, Greece.

Copyright © 2017 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.5125° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.6758° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km WSW of Nidri, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-28 21:45:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-19 04:02:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 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 1.175 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 177 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 us10007vz0 Id of event.
Event Code 10007vz0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007vz0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply