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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 8 km NW of Rodotopion, Greece


Earthquake location 39.7672S, 20.6635WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Rodotopion in Greece. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us20007efi. Ids that are associated to the event: us20007efi. The temblor was detected at 03:09:59 / 3:09 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 16/10/16 / 2016-10-16 00:09:59 / October 16, 2016 @ 12:09 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 20.6635 East, latitude 39.7672 North, depth = 21.56 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 21.56 km (13 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Event epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) from Ioánnina (c. 64 000 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Korçë (c. 58 300 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Tríkala (c. 49 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Kérkyra (c. 27 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Gjirokastër (c. 23 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Árta (c. 19 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Préveza (c. 17 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bilisht, Kastoriá, Tríkala (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 8 km NW of Rodotopion, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.6635° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.7672° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km NW 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 00:09:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-16 00:29:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.6 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 370 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 0.67 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us20007efi Id of event.
Event Code 20007efi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007efi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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