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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Lixourion in Greece

Posted by admin on June 4, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.1557S, 20.3196WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Lixourion in Greece. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 04/06/16 / 2016-06-04 16:38:26 / June 4, 2016 @ 4:38 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 20.3196 East, latitude 38.1557 North, depth = 16.3 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 16.3 km (10 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006226. Id of event: us20006226. The temblor was reported at 19:38:26 / 7:38 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mesolóngi, Amaliáda, Préveza (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 99 km (61 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Préveza (c. 17 300 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Mesolóngi (c. 12 700 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Lefkáda (c. 8 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km WSW of Lixourion, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.3196° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1557° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km WSW of Lixourion, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-04 16:38:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-04 17:10:55 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 369 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 1.604 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 us20006226 Id of event.
Event Code 20006226 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006226, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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