A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Rodotopion in Greece on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us20007eey. Ids that are associated to the event: us20007eey. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 20.672° East, 39.7125° North. The temblor was detected at 00:42:22 / 12:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/10/16 / 2016-10-15 21:42:22 / October 15, 2016 @ 9:42 pm.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tepelenë, Préveza, Kalampáka. Country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 16 km (10 miles) from Ioánnina (c. 64 000 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Kérkyra (c. 27 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Gjirokastër (c. 23 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Árta (c. 19 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Préveza (c. 17 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Sarandë (c. 15 100 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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