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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Ithaki in Greece


Earthquake location 38.468S, 20.4535WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Ithaki in Greece. The temblor was picked up at 19:45:54 / 7:45 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10003zm3. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003zm3. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12 km (7 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 20.4535 East, latitude 38.468 North, depth = 12 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/11/15 / 2015-11-19 17:45:54 / November 19, 2015 @ 5:45 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Árta, Mesolóngi, Zákynthos (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from Agrínio (c. 46 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Árta (c. 19 500 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Préveza (c. 17 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Mesolóngi (c. 12 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 25 km WNW of Ithaki, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.4535° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.468° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km WNW of Ithaki, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-19 17:45:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-19 19:06:31 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 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 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 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 us10003zm3 Id of event.
Event Code 10003zm3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003zm3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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