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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 16 km WSW of Lefkada, Greece


Earthquake location 38.7928S, 20.517WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Lefkada in Greece on Tuesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003z3x. Id of event: us10003z3x. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 20.517 East, latitude 38.7928 North, depth = 11.48 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/11/15 / 2015-11-17 20:52:27 / November 17, 2015 @ 8:52 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.48 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 22:52:27 / 10:52 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mesolóngi, Igoumenítsa, Agrínio. Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). The epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) from Agrínio (c. 46 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Árta (c. 19 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Préveza (c. 17 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Mesolóngi (c. 12 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Igoumenítsa (c. 9 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 16 km WSW of Lefkada, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.517° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.7928° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km WSW of Lefkada, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-17 20:52:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-17 22:03:16 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 1.437 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us10003z3x Id of event.
Event Code 10003z3x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003z3x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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