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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Ierapetra in Greece

Posted by admin on August 27, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 34.4922S, 25.5641WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Ierapetra in Greece on Thursday. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:25:08 / 2:25 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.83 km (16 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 25.83 km, 25.5641° East, 34.4922° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/08/15 / 2015-08-27 00:25:08 / August 27, 2015 @ 12:25 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003570. Id of event: us10003570.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Néa Alikarnassós, Irákleion, Goúvai (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 101 km (62 miles) from Irákleion (c. 137 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Ierápetra (c. 12 500 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Néa Alikarnassós (c. 11 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Ágios Nikólaos (c. 10 800 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Siteía (c. 8 700 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Goúvai (c. 7 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Moíres (c. 6 500 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 59 km SSW of Ierapetra, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 25.5641° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.4922° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km SSW of Ierapetra, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-27 00:25:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-27 00:43:31 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 354 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 1.681 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us10003570 Id of event.
Event Code 10003570 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003570, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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