Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Patrai in Greece

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Patrai in Greece. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 12:07:05 / 12:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/08/18 / 2018-08-22 10:07:05 / August 22, 2018 @ 10:07 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 21.7632° East, latitude 38.2556° North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000gf9d. Id of event: us1000gf9d.

Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lamía, Zákynthos, Kiáto (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 3 km (2 miles) from Pátra (c. 163 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Lamía (c. 52 000 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Agrínio (c. 46 900 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Aígio (c. 20 700 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 2 km ENE of Patrai, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	21.7632° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.2556° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km ENE of Patrai, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-08-22 10:07:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-22 11:16:55	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	120	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	285	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	2.113	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	82	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	us1000gf9d	Id of event.
Event Code	1000gf9d	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000gf9d,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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