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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Pirgos in Greece

Posted by admin on May 24, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 34.3663S, 24.9661WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Pirgos in Greece. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 36.05 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us1000ebl5. Event ids that are associated: us1000ebl5. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/05/18 / 2018-05-24 21:41:04 / May 24, 2018 @ 9:41 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 24.9661 East, latitude 34.3663 North, depth = 36.05 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:41:04 / 11:41 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Moíres (c. 6 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Moíres (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 two and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 72 km SSW of Pirgos, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 24.9661° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.3663° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72km SSW of Pirgos, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-24 21:41:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-24 22:30:57 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 284 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 0.921 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us1000ebl5 Id of event.
Event Code 1000ebl5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ebl5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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