A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Plomarion in Greece. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20009nb8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20009nb8. Exact location, longitude 26.4815° East, latitude 38.9025° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/06/17 / 2017-06-17 19:50:06 / June 17, 2017 @ 7:50 pm. The temblor was detected at 21:50:06 / 9:50 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kırkağaç, Soma, Ezine (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 79 km (49 miles) from İzmir (c. 2 500 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Karabağlar (c. 458 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Manisa (c. 244 000 pop), 102 km (64 miles) from Soma (c. 65 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Bergama (c. 57 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Menemen (c. 53 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Urla (c. 45 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-seven 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 12 km SE of Plomarion, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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