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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Makry Gialos in Greece


Earthquake location 34.3658S, 26.1883WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (mg/mb) has struck on Saturday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Makry Gialos in Greece. The temblor was reported at 21:52:45 / 9:52 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 23.71 km (15 miles). Global time of event 20/06/15 / 2015-06-20 19:52:45 / June 20, 2015 @ 7:52 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 26.1883 East, latitude 34.3658 North, depth 23.71 km, unique identifier, us10002kjx. Ids that are associated to the event, ,us10002kjx,.

Close countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). The epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Ierápetra (c. 12 500 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Ágios Nikólaos (c. 10 800 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Siteía (c. 8 700 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ágios Nikólaos, Siteía, Ierápetra.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 26.1883° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.3658° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km SSE of Makry Gialos, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-20 19:52:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-20 20:12:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 385 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 1.409 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 us10002kjx Id of event.
Event Code 10002kjx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002kjx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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