A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Karpathos in Greece. The temblor was reported at 15:53:25 / 3:53 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 03/05/17 / 2017-05-03 13:53:25 / May 3, 2017 @ 1:53 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10008nua. Unique identifier: us10008nua. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.64 km (4 miles). Exact location of event, depth 5.64 km, 26.8403° East, 35.2844° North.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Siteía. Epicenter of the earthquake was 67 km (42 miles) from Siteía (c. 8 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).
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 two and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 41 km SW of Karpathos, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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