Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Lalas in Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Lalas in Greece on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, 21.9785° East, 37.7052° North, depth 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004w7m. Id of event: us20004w7m. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:47:11 / 1:47 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 31/01/16 / 2016-01-31 23:47:11 / January 31, 2016 @ 11:47 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Pátra (c. 163 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Kalamáta (c. 51 100 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Kórinthos (c. 30 200 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Trípoli (c. 26 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Árgos (c. 22 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kórinthos, Mesolóngi, Spárti.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 23 km E of Lalas, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	21.9785° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.7052° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23km E of Lalas, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-01-31 23:47:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-02-15 03:07:31	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	246	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	0.527	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.97 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	50	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	us20004w7m	Id of event.
Event Code	20004w7m	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20004w7m,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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