Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Rodotopion in Greece

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Rodotopion in Greece on Sunday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 05:21:02 / 5:21 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20007egg. Event ids that are associated: us20007egg. Exact location, longitude 20.6335° East, latitude 39.7478° North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/10/16 / 2016-10-16 02:21:02 / October 16, 2016 @ 2:21 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bilisht, Lefkáda, Kastoriá. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). The epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Ioánnina (c. 64 000 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Korçë (c. 58 300 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Tríkala (c. 49 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Kérkyra (c. 27 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Gjirokastër (c. 23 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Árta (c. 19 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Préveza (c. 17 300 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 9 km WNW of Rodotopion, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	20.6335° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.7478° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km WNW 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 02:21:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-16 02:39:58	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	3.1	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	385	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	0.646	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	42	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	us20007egg	Id of event.
Event Code	20007egg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20007egg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

20.6335° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

39.7478° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

9km WNW 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 02:21:02

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2016-10-16 02:39:58

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

3.1

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

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

385

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.646

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.1 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us20007egg

Id of event.

Event Code

20007egg

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us20007egg,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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