A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Platanos in Greece. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 49.5 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 22.9621° East, latitude 35.495° North, depth = 49.5 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/07/18 / 2018-07-08 20:32:15 / July 8, 2018 @ 8:32 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000fzwd. Id of event: us2000fzwd. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:32:15 / 10:32 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mourniés. Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Mourniés (c. 5 300 pop).
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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.
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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: 57 km W of Platanos, Greece.
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