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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Afantou in Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Afantou in Greece. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 25.86 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 22:51:27 / 10:51 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007vud. Id of event: us10007vud. Exact location of earthquake, 28.7589° East, 35.9899° North, depth 25.86 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/01/17 / 2017-01-27 20:51:27 / January 27, 2017 @ 8:51 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ortaca, Dalaman, Kaş (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Fethiye (c. 60 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Ródos (c. 56 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Ortaca (c. 19 700 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Dalaman (c. 19 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Sarigerme (c. 16 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Triánta (c. 11 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Kaş (c. 7 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 63 km ESE of Afantou, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	28.7589° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.9899° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25.86 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	63km ESE of Afantou, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-01-27 20:51:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-27 22:51:29	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	354	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	0.562	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.88 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	33	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	us10007vud	Id of event.
Event Code	10007vud	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007vud,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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