Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Makry Gialos in Greece

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 97 km SSE of Makry Gialos, Greece (60 miles). Id of earthquake: us1000326n. Event ids that are associated: us1000326n. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 14/08/15 / 2015-08-14 04:46:58 / August 14, 2015 @ 4:46 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 26.2427° East, latitude 34.1941° North, depth = 21.51 km. The temblor was detected at 06:46:58 / 6:46 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.51 km (13 miles).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 97 km SSE of Makry Gialos, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	26.2427° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.1941° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	21.51 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	97km SSE of Makry Gialos, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-08-14 04:46:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-03 05:34:52	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	271	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	0.918	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.98 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	114	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	us1000326n	Id of event.
Event Code	1000326n	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000326n,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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