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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 17 km WSW of Lefkada, Greece


Earthquake location 38.7709S, 20.5154WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Lefkada in Greece. All ids that are associated to the event: us10003yxv. Unique identifier: us10003yxv. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 20.5154° East, 38.7709° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 17/11/15 / 2015-11-17 12:37:56 / November 17, 2015 @ 12:37 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:37:56 / 2:37 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Agrínio (c. 46 900 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Árta (c. 19 500 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Préveza (c. 17 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Mesolóngi (c. 12 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Igoumenítsa (c. 9 500 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Lefkáda (c. 8 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mesolóngi, Igoumenítsa, Agrínio (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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: 17 km WSW of Lefkada, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.5154° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.7709° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km 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 12:37:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-17 12:58:43 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 340 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 1.442 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us10003yxv Id of event.
Event Code 10003yxv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003yxv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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