A 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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