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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, Dodecanese Islands, Greece


Earthquake location 36.5933S, 26.9795WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, Dodecanese Islands, Greece kilometers (0 miles) from Dodecanese Islands, Greece. Unique identifier: us2000g4zi. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000g4zi. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:25:43 / 2:25 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 26.9795 East, latitude 36.5933 North, depth = 150.44 km. Global time and date of event 14/07/18 / 2018-07-14 14:25:43 / July 14, 2018 @ 2:25 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 150.44 km (93 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Didim, Datça, Bodrum (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Event epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Bodrum (c. 39 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Didim (c. 26 000 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Kos (c. 19 200 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Turgutreis (c. 16 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Datça (c. 10 100 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Kálymnos (c. 10 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Dodecanese Islands, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 26.9795° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5933° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 150.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Dodecanese Islands, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-14 14:25:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-14 16:40:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 298 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 0.996 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us2000g4zi Id of event.
Event Code 2000g4zi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000g4zi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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