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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Ierapetra in Greece

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Ierapetra in Greece. 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: 16/04/16 / 2016-04-16 00:10:41 / April 16, 2016 @ 12:10 am. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:10:41 / 3:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 25.7446° East, 34.9596° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us20005ivy. Unique identifier: us20005ivy. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Irákleion (c. 137 200 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Ierápetra (c. 12 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Néa Alikarnassós (c. 11 900 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Ágios Nikólaos (c. 10 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Gázi (c. 9 700 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Siteía (c. 8 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Goúvai (c. 7 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Moíres, Gázi, Irákleion (min 5000 pop).

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 fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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: 5 km S of Ierapetra, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	25.7446° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.9596° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km S of Ierapetra, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-16 00:10:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-16 00:52:59	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	180	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	0.773	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	71	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	us20005ivy	Id of event.
Event Code	20005ivy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005ivy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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