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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 3 km N of Rodotopion, Greece

Posted by admin on October 16, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.7389S, 20.7222WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Rodotopion in Greece. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/10/16 / 2016-10-16 05:06:33 / October 16, 2016 @ 5:06 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007ehc. Id of event: us20007ehc. Exact location, longitude 20.7222° East, latitude 39.7389° North, depth = 10 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:06:33 / 8:06 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Korçë, Çorovodë, Tríkala. Event epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) from Ioánnina (c. 64 000 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Korçë (c. 58 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Tríkala (c. 49 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Kérkyra (c. 27 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Gjirokastër (c. 23 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Árta (c. 19 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Préveza (c. 17 300 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km N of Rodotopion, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.7222° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.7389° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km N 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 05:06:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-16 05:25:05 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 326 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 0.714 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us20007ehc Id of event.
Event Code 20007ehc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007ehc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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