A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Lardos in Greece. 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 17.92 km (11 miles). Unique identifier: us10008t0f. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008t0f. Exact location, longitude 28.4311° East, latitude 35.5159° North, depth = 17.92 km. Global time and date of event 17/05/17 / 2017-05-17 13:02:03 / May 17, 2017 @ 1:02 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:02:03 / 3:02 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Afántou, Archángelos. Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 90 km (56 miles) from Afántou (c. 5 600 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Archángelos (c. 5 400 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 74 km SSE of Lardos, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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