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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Ouranopolis in Greece


Earthquake location 40.4274S, 24.0091WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Ouranopolis in Greece on Sunday. All ids that are associated to the event: us20003083. Unique identifier: us20003083. The epicenter was at a depth of 9.07 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:40:42 / 9:40 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/07/15 / 2015-07-26 18:40:42 / July 26, 2015 @ 6:40 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 24.0091° East, 40.4274° North, depth 9.07 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Thessaloníki, Políchni, Néoi Epivátes (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Event epicenter was 94 km (59 miles) from Thessaloníki (c. 354 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Kalamariá (c. 91 600 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Sérres (c. 58 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Kavála (c. 54 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Sykiés (c. 45 000 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Dráma (c. 44 800 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km NNE of Ouranopolis, Greece. This information 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 24.0091° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.4274° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km NNE of Ouranopolis, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-26 18:40:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-26 20:25:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.208 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 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 us20003083 Id of event.
Event Code 20003083 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003083, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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