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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Palaikastron in Greece


Earthquake location 35.5428S, 26.5208WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Palaikastron in Greece. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us200061zn. Unique identifier: us200061zn. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:56:42 / 4:56 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/06/16 / 2016-06-04 02:56:42 / June 4, 2016 @ 2:56 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 26.5208 East, latitude 35.5428 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ágios Nikólaos, Siteía (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Ágios Nikólaos (c. 10 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Siteía (c. 8 700 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 45 km NNE of Palaikastron, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 26.5208° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5428° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km NNE of Palaikastron, 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 02:56:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-28 23:21:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 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 246 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 0.522 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us200061zn Id of event.
Event Code 200061zn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200061zn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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