Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 27 km SSW of Elaiokhorion, Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Elaiokhorion in Greece on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/04/18 / 2018-04-10 11:42:22 / April 10, 2018 @ 11:42 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 24.1806 East, latitude 40.5781 North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000dxhi. Id of event: us2000dxhi. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:42:22 / 1:42 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 78 km (48 miles) from Sérres (c. 58 300 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Kavála (c. 54 000 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Xánthi (c. 48 200 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Dráma (c. 44 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Polýgyros (c. 10 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Néa Moudhaniá (c. 9 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Xánthi, Néa Moudhaniá, Sérres. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 27 km SSW of Elaiokhorion, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	24.1806° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.5781° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27km SSW of Elaiokhorion, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-04-10 11:42:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-04-16 12:36:43	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	1.173	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	70	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	us2000dxhi	Id of event.
Event Code	2000dxhi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000dxhi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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