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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near southern Greece


Earthquake location 36.2963S, 22.0194WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, southern Greece kilometers (0 miles) from southern Greece. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:11:54 / 1:11 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 28.07 km (17 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10007w19. Unique identifier: us10007w19. Exact location of earthquake, 22.0194° East, 36.2963° North, depth 28.07 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/01/17 / 2017-01-29 13:11:54 / January 29, 2017 @ 1:11 pm.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (52 miles) from Kalamáta (c. 51 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Spárti (c. 16 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Messíni (c. 6 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Gargaliánoi (c. 6 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Pýlos (c. 5 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Spárti, Gargaliánoi, Messíni.

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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: southern Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 22.0194° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2963° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place southern Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-29 13:11:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-29 14:41:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 0.883 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us10007w19 Id of event.
Event Code 10007w19 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007w19, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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