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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Rodotopion in Greece


Earthquake location 39.7987S, 20.5735WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Rodotopion in Greece on Sunday. Exact location of event, depth 23.73 km, 20.5735° East, 39.7987° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us20007efm. Unique identifier: us20007efm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 23.73 km (15 miles). The temblor was reported at 03:41:16 / 3:41 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 16/10/16 / 2016-10-16 00:41:16 / October 16, 2016 @ 12:41 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kastoriá, Poliçan, Bilisht. Close country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). The epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from Ioánnina (c. 64 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Korçë (c. 58 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Kérkyra (c. 27 000 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Gjirokastër (c. 23 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Árta (c. 19 500 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Préveza (c. 17 300 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Sarandë (c. 15 100 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 five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 16 km NW of Rodotopion, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.5735° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.7987° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km 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 00:41:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-16 01:08:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 11 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 389 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 0.605 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us20007efm Id of event.
Event Code 20007efm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007efm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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