A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Nafpaktos in Greece. Unique identifier: us20007d82. Ids that are associated to the event: us20007d82. Exact location, longitude 21.8896° East, latitude 38.3632° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:48:30 / 2:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/10/16 / 2016-10-11 11:48:30 / October 11, 2016 @ 11:48 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 19 km (12 miles) from Pátra (c. 163 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Lamía (c. 52 000 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Agrínio (c. 46 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Livadeiá (c. 21 500 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Aígio (c. 20 700 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Orchomenós, Livadeiá, Pýrgos (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 6 km ESE of Nafpaktos, Greece.
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