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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Pylos in Greece

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Pylos in Greece on Friday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000haw8. Id of event: us1000haw8. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude 21.2445° East, latitude 36.8683° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/10/18 / 2018-10-12 00:37:32 / October 12, 2018 @ 12:37 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 01:37:32 / 1:37 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (49 miles) from Kalamáta (c. 51 100 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Filiatrá (c. 7 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Messíni (c. 6 800 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Gargaliánoi (c. 6 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Zacháro (c. 5 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pýrgos, Kalamáta, Zacháro (min 5000 pop).

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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 40 km W of Pylos, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	21.2445° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.8683° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	40km W of Pylos, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-10-12 00:37:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-12 00:52:09	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	60	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	3.059	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.01 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	63	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	us1000haw8	Id of event.
Event Code	1000haw8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000haw8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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