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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Peyia in Cyprus


Earthquake location 34.9501S, 32.099WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Peyia in Cyprus. All ids that are associated to the event: us10003y1m. Unique identifier: us10003y1m. The epicenter was at a depth of 11.73 km (7 miles). Global time and date of event 10/11/15 / 2015-11-10 20:29:42 / November 10, 2015 @ 8:29 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 32.099 East, latitude 34.9501 North, depth = 11.73 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 22:29:42 / 10:29 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Cyprus (c. 1 103 000 pop). The epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Limassol (c. 154 000 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Paphos (c. 36 000 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Mórfou (c. 14 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Léfka (c. 7 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Ýpsonas (c. 7 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Limassol, Mórfou, Ýpsonas (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 27 km WNW of Peyia, Cyprus. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 32.099° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.9501° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km WNW of Peyia, Cyprus Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-10 20:29:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-13 15:19:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 284 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 1.012 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us10003y1m Id of event.
Event Code 10003y1m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003y1m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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