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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 80 km WSW of Mouzaki, Greece


Earthquake location 37.5029S, 19.9486WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Mouzaki in Greece. Id of earthquake: us10004a8u. Event ids that are associated: us10004a8u. 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 9.67 km (6 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:15:53 / 3:15 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 19.9486° East, 37.5029° North, depth 9.67 km. Global time and date of event 29/12/15 / 2015-12-29 14:15:53 / December 29, 2015 @ 2:15 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zákynthos, Argostólion (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 80 km WSW of Mouzaki, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 19.9486° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5029° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80km WSW of Mouzaki, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-29 14:15:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-29 20:07:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 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 326 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 1.608 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 160 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 us10004a8u Id of event.
Event Code 10004a8u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004a8u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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