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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Palaiochora in Greece

Posted by admin on March 12, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.3157S, 23.5123WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Palaiochora in Greece on Saturday. Id of earthquake: us10004x09. Event ids that are associated: us10004x09. The epicenter was at a depth of 21.2 km (13 miles). Exact location, longitude 23.5123° East, latitude 35.3157° North, depth = 21.2 km. 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: 12/03/16 / 2016-03-12 12:40:41 / March 12, 2016 @ 12:40 pm. The temblor was picked up at 14:40:41 / 2:40 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Chaniá (c. 54 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Rethymno (c. 29 900 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Soúda (c. 6 700 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Mourniés (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rethymno, Soúda, Chaniá. Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

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 four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourteen 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: 18 km WNW of Palaiochora, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 23.5123° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.3157° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km WNW of Palaiochora, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-12 12:40:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-12 12:56:48 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 340 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 1.127 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us10004x09 Id of event.
Event Code 10004x09 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004x09, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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