A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Nidri in Greece. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:39:03 / 11:39 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us100040mz. Ids that are associated to the event: us100040mz. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 5.89 km (4 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/11/15 / 2015-11-24 09:39:03 / November 24, 2015 @ 9:39 am. Exact location of event, depth 5.89 km, 20.5222° East, 38.715° North.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Igoumenítsa, Mesolóngi, Agrínio. Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Agrínio (c. 46 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Árta (c. 19 500 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Préveza (c. 17 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Mesolóngi (c. 12 700 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Igoumenítsa (c. 9 500 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Lefkáda (c. 8 700 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.
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