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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Tympakion in Greece

Posted by admin on September 29, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 34.7443S, 24.6091WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Tympakion in Greece on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 24.6091° East, latitude 34.7443° North, depth = 30.92 km. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:12:40 / 11:12 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us10003iqy. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003iqy. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 30.92 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/09/15 / 2015-09-29 09:12:40 / September 29, 2015 @ 9:12 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chaniá, Mourniés, Soúda. Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 81 km (50 miles) from Irákleion (c. 137 200 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Chaniá (c. 54 600 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Rethymno (c. 29 900 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Néa Alikarnassós (c. 11 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Gázi (c. 9 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Goúvai (c. 7 800 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Soúda (c. 6 700 pop).

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 nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. 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: 38 km SSW of Tympakion, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 24.6091° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.7443° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km SSW of Tympakion, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-29 09:12:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-29 09:29:17 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 369 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 1.764 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us10003iqy Id of event.
Event Code 10003iqy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003iqy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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