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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Moirai in Greece

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Moirai in Greece. Exact location of event, longitude 24.8037 East, latitude 34.7387 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/09/16 / 2016-09-29 22:27:15 / September 29, 2016 @ 10:27 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us10006tz4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006tz4. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 01:27:15 / 1:27 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ierápetra, Goúvai, Rethymno (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Irákleion (c. 137 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Rethymno (c. 29 900 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Ierápetra (c. 12 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Néa Alikarnassós (c. 11 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Gázi (c. 9 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Goúvai (c. 7 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 one and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 35 km S of Moirai, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	24.8037° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.7387° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35km S of Moirai, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-09-29 22:27:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-09-29 22:43:45	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	180	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	271	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	0.552	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.37 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	77	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	us10006tz4	Id of event.
Event Code	10006tz4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006tz4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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