Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Loukisia in Greece

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Loukisia in Greece. Event id: us10008fi8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008fi8. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 23.4408 East, latitude 38.5324 North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/04/17 / 2017-04-07 15:50:29 / April 7, 2017 @ 3:50 pm. The temblor was detected at 17:50:29 / 5:50 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Athens (c. 664 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Piraeus (c. 163 700 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Peristéri (c. 140 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Kallithéa (c. 100 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Acharnés (c. 99 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Níkaia (c. 89 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Almyrós, Ámfissa, Kalývia Thorikoú (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km N of Loukisia, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	23.4408° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.5324° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km N of Loukisia, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-04-07 15:50:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-04-30 16:03:34	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	284	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	0.991	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	62	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	us10008fi8	Id of event.
Event Code	10008fi8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10008fi8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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