Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Makry Gialos in Greece

A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Makry Gialos in Greece. Global time and date of event 17/09/18 / 2018-09-17 00:24:08 / September 17, 2018 @ 12:24 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 02:24:08 / 2:24 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 26.5207° East, 34.463° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us2000hfm5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hfm5.

Earthquake epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Ierápetra (c. 12 500 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Siteía (c. 8 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ierápetra, Siteía. Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

Each 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seventeen 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. 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: 82 km SE of Makry Gialos, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	26.5207° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.463° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	82km SE of Makry Gialos, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-09-17 00:24:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-09-17 00:51:51	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	369	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	1.202	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.77 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	44	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	us2000hfm5	Id of event.
Event Code	2000hfm5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000hfm5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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