A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Gefyra in Greece on Thursday. 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: us1000e6uj. Unique identifier: us1000e6uj. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/05/18 / 2018-05-16 22:30:04 / May 16, 2018 @ 10:30 pm. The temblor was detected at 00:30:04 / 12:30 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.5 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 22.9129 East, latitude 36.5142 North, depth = 10.5 km.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Messíni, Kalamáta, Spárti. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Kalamáta (c. 51 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Spárti (c. 16 200 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Messíni (c. 6 800 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 22 km SSW of Gefyra, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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