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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Metsovo in Greece

Posted by admin on December 21, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.6413S, 21.1958WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Metsovo in Greece. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.51 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 21.1958 East, latitude 39.6413 North, depth = 2.51 km. The temblor was reported at 12:44:15 / 12:44 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/12/15 / 2015-12-06 10:44:15 / December 6, 2015 @ 10:44 am. Event id: us100044ex. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100044ex.

Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 30 km (18 miles) from Ioánnina (c. 64 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Tríkala (c. 49 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Kozáni (c. 36 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Kardítsa (c. 32 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Árta (c. 19 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Préveza (c. 17 300 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Týrnavos (c. 10 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Karpenísi, Týrnavos, Árgos Orestikó (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 14 km S of Metsovo, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 21.1958° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.6413° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km S of Metsovo, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-06 10:44:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-21 07:19:36 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 312 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 1.029 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 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 us100044ex Id of event.
Event Code 100044ex An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100044ex, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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