A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Ayios Nikolaos in Greece. Exact location of earthquake, 21.1072° East, 37.7626° North, depth 22.78 km. Event id: us10005e1q. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005e1q. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 22.78 km (14 miles). 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: 26/04/16 / 2016-04-26 14:15:18 / April 26, 2016 @ 2:15 pm. The temblor was detected at 17:15:18 / 5:15 pm (local time epicenter).
Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Náfpaktos, Gargaliánoi, Río (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Pátra (c. 163 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Náfpaktos (c. 13 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Mesolóngi (c. 12 700 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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