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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Peyia in Cyprus


Earthquake location 34.8988S, 31.5564WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Peyia in Cyprus. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/09/16 / 2016-09-21 18:08:07 / September 21, 2016 @ 6:08 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 31.5564° East, 34.8988° North. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:08:07 / 8:08 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10006rez. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006rez. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Paphos (c. 36 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Cyprus (c. 1 103 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Paphos.

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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 75 km W of Peyia, Cyprus. 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 31.5564° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.8988° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km W of Peyia, Cyprus Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-21 18:08:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-21 20:34:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 1.459 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 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 us10006rez Id of event.
Event Code 10006rez An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006rez, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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