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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near Koroni in Greece

Posted by admin on October 19, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.47S, 22.07WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) strikes 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Koroni in Greece on Thursday. Id of earthquake: us10006rk9. Event ids that are associated: us10006rk9. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 30 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 30 km, 22.07° East, 36.47° North. The temblor was reported at 09:22:45 / 9:22 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/09/16 / 2016-09-22 08:22:45 / September 22, 2016 @ 8:22 am.

The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Kalamáta (c. 51 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Spárti (c. 16 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Filiatrá (c. 7 000 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Messíni (c. 6 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Gargaliánoi (c. 6 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Pýlos (c. 5 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Filiatrá, Gargaliánoi, Spárti. Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 38 km SSE of Koroni, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 22.07° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.47° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km SSE of Koroni, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-22 08:22:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-19 05:01:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 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 234 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 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 mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10006rk9 Id of event.
Event Code 10006rk9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006rk9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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