Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Pirgos in Greece

A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 90 km S of Pirgos, Greece (56 miles) on Friday. The temblor was reported at 20:04:49 / 8:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 25/08/17 / 2017-08-25 18:04:49 / August 25, 2017 @ 6:04 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31.66 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us2000abt6. Event ids that are associated: us2000abt6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 31.66 km, 24.9591° East, 34.1993° North.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each 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.

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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: 90 km S of Pirgos, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	24.9591° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.1993° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	31.66 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	90km S of Pirgos, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-08-25 18:04:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-25 18:55:02	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	259	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	1.087	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	187	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	us2000abt6	Id of event.
Event Code	2000abt6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000abt6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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