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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Arkhaia Korinthos in Greece

Posted by admin on October 9, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.9467S, 22.9007WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Arkhaia Korinthos in Greece. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:19:29 / 3:19 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 22.9007° East, 37.9467° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000b2x9. Unique identifier: us2000b2x9. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/10/17 / 2017-10-09 01:19:29 / October 9, 2017 @ 1:19 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Markópoulo, Kalývia Thorikoú, Megalópoli. Epicenter of the event was 72 km (44 miles) from Athens (c. 664 000 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Piraeus (c. 163 700 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Peristéri (c. 140 000 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Kallithéa (c. 100 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Acharnés (c. 99 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Níkaia (c. 89 400 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 3 km NNE of Arkhaia Korinthos, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 22.9007° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.9467° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km NNE of Arkhaia Korinthos, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-09 01:19:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-09 01:41:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 2.579 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us2000b2x9 Id of event.
Event Code 2000b2x9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000b2x9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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