A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Makry Gialos in Greece. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/10/15 / 2015-10-12 02:16:10 / October 12, 2015 @ 2:16 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 04:16:10 / 4:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 26.3848 East, latitude 34.4987 North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003mx2. Id of event: us10003mx2.
Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ágios Nikólaos, Siteía, Ierápetra. Epicenter of the event was 82 km (51 miles) from Ierápetra (c. 12 500 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Ágios Nikólaos (c. 10 800 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Siteía (c. 8 700 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 71 km SSE of Makry Gialos, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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