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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Florina in Greece

Posted by admin on October 14, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.8542S, 21.3044WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Florina in Greece. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/10/17 / 2017-10-14 09:55:38 / October 14, 2017 @ 9:55 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 11.61 km (7 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 21.3044 East, latitude 40.8542 North, depth = 11.61 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000as2z. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000as2z. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:55:38 / 11:55 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gradsko, Negotino, Gramsh. Close country/countries, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Macedonia (c. 2 062 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) from Bitola (c. 86 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Prilep (c. 73 800 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Korçë (c. 58 300 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Ohrid (c. 54 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Centar Župa (c. 45 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Véroia (c. 44 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Kavadarci (c. 38 800 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 11 km NW of Florina, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 21.3044° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.8542° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km NW of Florina, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-14 09:55:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-14 10:15:33 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 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 0.094 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us1000as2z Id of event.
Event Code 1000as2z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000as2z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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