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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 4 km E of Psevdhas, Cyprus


Earthquake location 34.9502S, 33.5113WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Psevdhas in Cyprus. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/05/16 / 2016-05-12 00:18:37 / May 12, 2016 @ 12:18 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 33.5113 East, latitude 34.9502 North, depth = 6.33 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10005gp8. Unique identifier: us10005gp8. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:18:37 / 3:18 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.33 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Nicosia (c. 200 500 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Limassol (c. 154 000 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Larnaca (c. 72 000 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Famagusta (c. 42 500 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Kyrenia (c. 26 700 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Protaras (c. 20 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Léfka, Ýpsonas, Mórfou. Nearby country/countries, Cyprus (c. 1 103 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 4 km E of Psevdhas, Cyprus.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 33.5113° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.9502° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km E of Psevdhas, Cyprus Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-12 00:18:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-12 00:38:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 6.1 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 288 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 0.148 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 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 us10005gp8 Id of event.
Event Code 10005gp8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005gp8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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