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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Ithaki in Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Ithaki in Greece. Exact location, longitude 20.494° East, latitude 38.4456° North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us10006j7l. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006j7l. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:07:53 / 7:07 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/09/16 / 2016-09-01 04:07:53 / September 1, 2016 @ 4:07 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Agrínio (c. 46 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Árta (c. 19 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Préveza (c. 17 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Mesolóngi (c. 12 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Árta, Mesolóngi, Agrínio.

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-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 21 km WNW of Ithaki, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	20.494° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.4456° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21km WNW of Ithaki, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-09-01 04:07:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-09-01 20:54:43	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	180	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	272	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	1.377	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	81	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	us10006j7l	Id of event.
Event Code	10006j7l	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006j7l,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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