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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Megalopolis in Greece


Earthquake location 37.4052S, 22.0881WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Megalopolis in Greece. The temblor was picked up at 06:08:18 / 6:08 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/07/18 / 2018-07-29 04:08:18 / July 29, 2018 @ 4:08 am. Exact location, longitude 22.0881° East, latitude 37.4052° North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000gggc. Unique identifier: us2000gggc. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kiáto, Gastoúni, Xylókastro (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Kalamáta (c. 51 100 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Trípoli (c. 26 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Árgos (c. 22 200 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Spárti (c. 16 200 pop). Nearby 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

Questions or comments?

How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 4 km W of Megalopolis, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 22.0881° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4052° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km W of Megalopolis, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-29 04:08:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-30 01:50:08 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 259 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 0.26 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us2000gggc Id of event.
Event Code 2000gggc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000gggc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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