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Light earthquake 4 mag, 18 km NNE of Aigion, Greece


Earthquake location 38.4014S, 22.175WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Aigion in Greece on Monday. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:31:11 / 5:31 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 22.175 East, latitude 38.4014 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/11/17 / 2017-11-20 03:31:11 / November 20, 2017 @ 3:31 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us2000brp7. Event ids that are associated: us2000brp7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kórinthos, Loutráki, Áyios Konstandínos. Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Pátra (c. 163 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Lamía (c. 52 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Agrínio (c. 46 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Kórinthos (c. 30 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Livadeiá (c. 21 500 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Aígio (c. 20 700 pop).

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. 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 twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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 NNE of Aigion, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 22.175° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.4014° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km NNE of Aigion, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-20 03:31:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-20 04:09:02 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 246 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 0.631 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us2000brp7 Id of event.
Event Code 2000brp7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000brp7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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