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Minor earthquake: M3.8 quake has struck near Ypsonas in Cyprus

Posted by admin on July 3, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 34.707S, 32.9206WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Ypsonas in Cyprus on Sunday. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:42:52 / 2:42 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10005zp0. Unique identifier: us10005zp0. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/07/16 / 2016-07-03 11:42:52 / July 3, 2016 @ 11:42 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 32.9206 East, latitude 34.707 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pergamos, Kyrenia, Lápithos (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Cyprus (c. 1 103 000 pop). Event epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Nicosia (c. 200 500 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Limassol (c. 154 000 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Larnaca (c. 72 000 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Paphos (c. 36 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kyrenia (c. 26 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Pergamos (c. 15 000 pop).

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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 3 km WNW of Ypsonas, Cyprus.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 32.9206° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.707° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km WNW of Ypsonas, Cyprus Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-03 11:42:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-03 21:00:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 223 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 0.422 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 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 us10005zp0 Id of event.
Event Code 10005zp0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005zp0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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