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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Gefyra in Greece


Earthquake location 36.4686S, 22.864WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Gefyra in Greece. The temblor was detected at 00:41:07 / 12:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/05/18 / 2018-05-16 22:41:07 / May 16, 2018 @ 10:41 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us1000e6uv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000e6uv. Exact location of earthquake, 22.864° East, 36.4686° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Kalamáta (c. 51 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Spárti (c. 16 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalamáta, Spárti (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 28 km SSW of Gefyra, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 22.864° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4686° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km 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 22:41:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-15 02:11:03 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 1.034 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us1000e6uv Id of event.
Event Code 1000e6uv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e6uv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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