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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Gefyra in Greece


Earthquake location 36.5142S, 22.9129WA 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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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 22.9129° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5142° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km SSW of Gefyra, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-16 22:30:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-16 22:57:20 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 385 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 1.033 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000e6uj Id of event.
Event Code 1000e6uj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e6uj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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