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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Palaiochora in Greece

Posted by admin on March 27, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.1829S, 23.5867WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Palaiochora in Greece on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/03/16 / 2016-03-13 23:26:32 / March 13, 2016 @ 11:26 pm. Event id: us20005afz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005afz. Exact location of earthquake, 23.5867° East, 35.1829° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:26:32 / 1:26 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rethymno, Soúda, Chaniá (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 54 km (34 miles) from Chaniá (c. 54 600 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Rethymno (c. 29 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Soúda (c. 6 700 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Mourniés (c. 5 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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: 10 km WSW of Palaiochora, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 23.5867° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.1829° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km WSW 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 2016-03-13 23:26:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-27 02:55:05 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 1.072 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us20005afz Id of event.
Event Code 20005afz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005afz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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