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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Aigion in Greece

Posted by admin on February 28, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.1643S, 22.0478WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Aigion in Greece. Exact location of event, depth 49.43 km, 22.0478° East, 38.1643° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/02/17 / 2017-02-06 14:26:10 / February 6, 2017 @ 2:26 pm. Unique identifier: us20008kib. Ids that are associated to the event: us20008kib. The temblor was detected at 16:26:10 / 4:26 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 49.43 km (31 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Náfplio, Orchomenós, Lamía. The epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Pátra (c. 163 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Lamía (c. 52 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Agrínio (c. 46 900 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Kórinthos (c. 30 200 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Trípoli (c. 26 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 9 km SSW of Aigion, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 22.0478° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1643° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SSW of Aigion, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-02-06 14:26:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-28 20:49:05 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 298 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 0.884 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us20008kib Id of event.
Event Code 20008kib An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008kib, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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