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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 16 km NNW of Rodotopion, Greece


Earthquake location 39.8453S, 20.644WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Rodotopion in Greece. Id of earthquake: us20007ehj. Event ids that are associated: us20007ehj. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/10/16 / 2016-10-16 05:55:06 / October 16, 2016 @ 5:55 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:55:06 / 8:55 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 20.644 East, latitude 39.8453 North, depth = 10 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Ioánnina (c. 64 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Korçë (c. 58 300 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Kérkyra (c. 27 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Gjirokastër (c. 23 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Árta (c. 19 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Sarandë (c. 15 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bilisht, Kastoriá, Siátista (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 16 km NNW of Rodotopion, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.644° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.8453° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km NNW of Rodotopion, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-16 05:55:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-16 06:54:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 298 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 0.666 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us20007ehj Id of event.
Event Code 20007ehj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007ehj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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