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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Rodotopion in Greece

Posted by admin on October 16, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.7864S, 20.6WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Rodotopion in Greece. Id of earthquake: us20007eh0. Event ids that are associated: us20007eh0. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/10/16 / 2016-10-16 03:40:20 / October 16, 2016 @ 3:40 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 20.6 East, latitude 39.7864 North, depth = 10 km. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:40:20 / 6:40 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 25 km (16 miles) from Ioánnina (c. 64 000 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Korçë (c. 58 300 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Tríkala (c. 49 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Kérkyra (c. 27 000 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Gjirokastër (c. 23 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Árta (c. 19 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Préveza (c. 17 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tríkala, Poliçan, Bilisht.

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 13 km NW of Rodotopion, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.6° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.7864° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km 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 03:40:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-16 03:59:07 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 400 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 0.624 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 us20007eh0 Id of event.
Event Code 20007eh0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007eh0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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