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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Kato Mazarakion in Greece


Earthquake location 37.9772S, 21.5622WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Kato Mazarakion in Greece. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/05/16 / 2016-05-25 10:00:13 / May 25, 2016 @ 10:00 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 23.5 km (15 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us20005xs1. Unique identifier: us20005xs1. Exact location of event, depth 23.5 km, 21.5622° East, 37.9772° North. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:00:13 / 1:00 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 33 km (21 miles) from Pátra (c. 163 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Agrínio (c. 46 900 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Trípoli (c. 26 600 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Aígio (c. 20 700 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop). Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Trípoli, Megalópoli, Kyparissía.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 12 km SW of Kato Mazarakion, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 21.5622° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.9772° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km SW of Kato Mazarakion, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-25 10:00:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-15 08:02:05 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 259 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 us20005xs1 Id of event.
Event Code 20005xs1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005xs1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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