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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Lardos in Greece

Posted by admin on October 15, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.8753S, 27.6143WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Lardos in Greece. Exact location of event, longitude 27.6143 East, latitude 35.8753 North, depth = 11.93 km. Unique identifier: us2000ap9t. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000ap9t. The temblor was reported at 22:38:00 / 10:38 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.93 km (7 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/09/17 / 2017-09-16 20:38:00 / September 16, 2017 @ 8:38 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ródos, Triánta, Faliraki (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 83 km (52 miles) from Ródos (c. 56 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Triánta (c. 11 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Faliraki (c. 6 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Afántou (c. 5 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Archángelos (c. 5 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 43 km SW of Lardos, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 27.6143° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8753° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km SW of Lardos, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-16 20:38:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-15 02:59:13 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 0.531 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us2000ap9t Id of event.
Event Code 2000ap9t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ap9t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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