Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 115 km WNW of Polis, Cyprus

A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 115 km WNW of Polis, Cyprus (71 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000339b. Id of event: us1000339b. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.75 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 31.2988° East, latitude 35.5241° North, depth = 29.75 km. The temblor was reported at 23:19:42 / 11:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/08/15 / 2015-08-18 21:19:42 / August 18, 2015 @ 9:19 pm.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 115 km WNW of Polis, Cyprus. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	31.2988° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.5241° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	29.75 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	115km WNW of Polis, Cyprus	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-08-18 21:19:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-18 21:41:43	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	120	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	370	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	1.546	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	130	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	us1000339b	Id of event.
Event Code	1000339b	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000339b,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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