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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Moirai in Greece


Earthquake location 34.9276S, 24.8404WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Moirai in Greece on Thursday. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/03/17 / 2017-03-30 05:12:28 / March 30, 2017 @ 5:12 am UTC/GMT. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:12:28 / 7:12 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us10008d82. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008d82. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 56.99 km (35 miles). Exact location, longitude 24.8404° East, latitude 34.9276° North, depth = 56.99 km.

Event epicenter was 52 km (33 miles) from Irákleion (c. 137 200 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Rethymno (c. 29 900 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Ierápetra (c. 12 500 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Néa Alikarnassós (c. 11 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Ágios Nikólaos (c. 10 800 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Gázi (c. 9 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Soúda, Ágios Nikólaos, Ierápetra. Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 13 km S of Moirai, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 24.8404° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.9276° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km S of Moirai, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-30 05:12:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-30 05:47:53 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 0.361 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us10008d82 Id of event.
Event Code 10008d82 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008d82, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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