A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Ithaki in Greece. The temblor was reported at 07:12:24 / 7:12 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 20.3452° East, latitude 38.5346° North, depth = 6.64 km. Global time and date of event 20/11/15 / 2015-11-20 05:12:24 / November 20, 2015 @ 5:12 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us10003zrb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003zrb. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.64 km (4 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mesolóngi, Zákynthos, Agrínio. Epicenter of the earthquake was 93 km (58 miles) from Agrínio (c. 46 900 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Árta (c. 19 500 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Préveza (c. 17 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Mesolóngi (c. 12 700 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Lefkáda (c. 8 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. 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: 37 km WNW of Ithaki, Greece.
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