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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Patitirion in Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Patitirion in Greece. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/09/17 / 2017-09-17 14:29:34 / September 17, 2017 @ 2:29 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000apie. Event ids that are associated: us2000apie. The temblor was detected at 16:29:34 / 4:29 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 24.0045 East, latitude 39.2821 North, depth = 10 km.

Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Vólos (c. 84 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Néa Ionía (c. 32 700 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Néa Artáki (c. 9 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Psachná (c. 5 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Agriá (c. 5 500 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Skiáthos (c. 5 200 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Alivéri (c. 5 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alivéri, Néa Ionía, Vólos (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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. 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: 18 km NE of Patitirion, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	24.0045° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.2821° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18km NE of Patitirion, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-09-17 14:29:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-17 15:26:32	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	3.1	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	1.323	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.57 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	54	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	us2000apie	Id of event.
Event Code	2000apie	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000apie,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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