Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Florina in Greece

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Florina in Greece. Global time and date of event 27/08/15 / 2015-08-27 16:01:47 / August 27, 2015 @ 4:01 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 21.2224° East, 40.7991° North, depth 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:01:47 / 7:01 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us100035c9. Unique identifier: us100035c9.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kavadarci, Centar Župa, Zajas. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Macedonia (c. 2 062 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 28 km (17 miles) from Bitola (c. 86 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Prilep (c. 73 800 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Korçë (c. 58 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Ohrid (c. 54 900 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Centar Župa (c. 45 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Véroia (c. 44 500 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Kavadarci (c. 38 800 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. 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: 15 km W of Florina, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	21.2224° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.7991° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km W of Florina, 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 16:01:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-27 21:33:19	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	3.8	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	312	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	0.374	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.01 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	56	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	us100035c9	Id of event.
Event Code	100035c9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100035c9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.5 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

21.2224° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

40.7991° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

15km W of Florina, 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 16:01:47

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2015-08-27 21:33:19

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

180

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

The total number of felt reports

CDI

3.8

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

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

312

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.374

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.01 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us100035c9

Id of event.

Event Code

100035c9

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us100035c9,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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