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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Gra Liyia in Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Gra Liyia in Greece. Exact location, longitude 25.4521° East, latitude 34.9396° North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/07/17 / 2017-07-21 10:36:56 / July 21, 2017 @ 10:36 am. Id of earthquake: us20009ywt. Event ids that are associated: us20009ywt. The temblor was picked up at 12:36:56 / 12:36 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Siteía, Gázi, Moíres (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Irákleion (c. 137 200 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Ierápetra (c. 12 500 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Néa Alikarnassós (c. 11 900 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Ágios Nikólaos (c. 10 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Gázi (c. 9 700 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Siteía (c. 8 700 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Goúvai (c. 7 800 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 22 km WSW of Gra Liyia, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	25.4521° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.9396° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22km WSW of Gra Liyia, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-07-21 10:36:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-07-21 11:51:04	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	120	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	312	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	0.577	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.86 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	113	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	us20009ywt	Id of event.
Event Code	20009ywt	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20009ywt,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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