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Moderate earthquake: M5.5 quake strikes near Peyia in Cyprus


Earthquake location 34.8637S, 32.31WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (mg/mb) was reported Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Peyia in Cyprus. The temblor was reported at 11:25:12 / 11:25 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time of event 15/04/15 / 2015-04-15 08:25:12 / April 15, 2015 @ 8:25 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 32.31 East, latitude 34.8637 North, depth 10 km, unique identifier, us200026mv.

Close countries, Cyprus (c. 1 103 000 pop). The epicenter was 102 km (63 miles) from Nicosia (c. 200 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Limassol (c. 154 000 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Paphos (c. 36 000 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Kyrenia (c. 26 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Mórfou (c. 14 800 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kyrenia, Yeri, Dhali.

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Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded in: 7 km WSW of Peyia, Cyprus.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 32.31° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.8637° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km WSW of Peyia, Cyprus Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-04-15 08:25:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-04-15 08:42:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 10 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.9 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.52 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 470 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 0.844 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us200026mv Id of event.
Event Code 200026mv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200026mv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

4 Comments

  1. John Freeman

    The earthquake was quite strongly felt in Kissonerga area and caused buildings to shake along with items to fall from shelves and pictures from walls. Worst fo some time.

  2. Mike

    We are over on the east side of the island,in Frenaros.
    Didn’t feel anything here this morning.

  3. Steven

    Felt it on talla in paphos, first experience of an earthquake, fairly shook the house.

  4. Andreas

    I live in Tala and have experienced my first earthquake. The shock runs deep. Minor damage to property. Another smaller quakes followed. I was frozen and could not do anything.

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