A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Rodotopion in Greece. The temblor was picked up at 02:06:59 / 2:06 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20007efd. Event ids that are associated: us20007efd. Exact location, longitude 20.6858° East, latitude 39.7796° North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 15/10/16 / 2016-10-15 23:06:59 / October 15, 2016 @ 11:06 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Korçë, Préveza, Siátista (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Ioánnina (c. 64 000 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Korçë (c. 58 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Kérkyra (c. 27 000 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Gjirokastër (c. 23 400 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Árta (c. 19 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Préveza (c. 17 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten 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: 8 km NNW of Rodotopion, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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