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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Methoni in Greece

Posted by admin on June 30, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.795S, 21.5548WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Methoni in Greece on Tuesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002mi3. Id of event: us10002mi3. Exact location of earthquake, 21.5548° East, 36.795° North, depth 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/06/15 / 2015-06-30 06:07:22 / June 30, 2015 @ 6:07 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:07:22 / 9:07 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Kalamáta (c. 51 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Spárti (c. 16 200 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Filiatrá (c. 7 000 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Messíni (c. 6 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Gargaliánoi (c. 6 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Zacháro (c. 5 900 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Pýlos (c. 5 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Megalópoli, Spárti, Zacháro (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 21.5548° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.795° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km WSW of Methoni, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-30 06:07:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-30 06:37:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 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 326 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 0.484 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us10002mi3 Id of event.
Event Code 10002mi3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002mi3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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