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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Rodotopion in Greece


Earthquake location 39.7733S, 20.5852WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Rodotopion in Greece. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007fgr. Id of event: us20007fgr. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/10/16 / 2016-10-19 21:23:57 / October 19, 2016 @ 9:23 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 00:23:57 / 12:23 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 20.5852° East, 39.7733° North, depth 10 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Ioánnina (c. 64 000 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Korçë (c. 58 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Kérkyra (c. 27 000 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Gjirokastër (c. 23 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Árta (c. 19 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Préveza (c. 17 300 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Sarandë (c. 15 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Korçë, Árgos Orestikó, Préveza. Close country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km WNW of Rodotopion, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.5852° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.7733° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km 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 2016-10-19 21:23:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-19 21:49:58 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 3.4 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 312 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 0.611 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.35 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 us20007fgr Id of event.
Event Code 20007fgr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007fgr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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