A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Nea Apollonia in Greece. The temblor was picked up at 08:17:02 / 8:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 23.4104° East, 40.6533° North, depth 9.89 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.89 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 06/08/16 / 2016-08-06 05:17:02 / August 6, 2016 @ 5:17 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us10006bta. Unique identifier: us10006bta.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Krýa Vrýsi, , Kavála. Event epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Thessaloníki (c. 354 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Kalamariá (c. 91 600 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Sérres (c. 58 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Kavála (c. 54 000 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Kateríni (c. 53 300 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Sykiés (c. 45 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 4 km WNW of Nea Apollonia, Greece.
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