A 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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