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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Rion in Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Rion in Greece on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 23.48 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us10007scl. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007scl. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 21.7512° East, latitude 38.2946° North, depth = 23.48 km. The temblor was picked up at 14:44:54 / 2:44 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 10/01/17 / 2017-01-10 12:44:54 / January 10, 2017 @ 12:44 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Zákynthos, Kiáto, Zacháro. Epicenter of the event was 6 km (4 miles) from Pátra (c. 163 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Lamía (c. 52 000 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Agrínio (c. 46 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Aígio (c. 20 700 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Náfpaktos (c. 13 400 pop). Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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: 2 km WSW of Rion, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	21.7512° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.2946° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	23.48 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km WSW of Rion, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-01-10 12:44:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-10 17:04:02	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	120	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	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	1.122	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.13 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	52	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	us10007scl	Id of event.
Event Code	10007scl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007scl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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