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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 9 km S of Nea Apollonia, Greece


Earthquake location 40.549S, 23.4465WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Nea Apollonia in Greece. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hc9g. Unique identifier: us1000hc9g. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.19 km (3 miles). Global time and date of event 15/10/18 / 2018-10-15 09:02:46 / October 15, 2018 @ 9:02 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 23.4465° East, latitude 40.549° North, depth = 5.19 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:02:46 / 11:02 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Petrich, Litóchoro, Star Dojran (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 45 km (28 miles) from Thessaloníki (c. 354 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Kalamariá (c. 91 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Sérres (c. 58 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Kavála (c. 54 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Kateríni (c. 53 300 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Sykiés (c. 45 000 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Dráma (c. 44 800 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 one and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 9 km S of Nea Apollonia, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 23.4465° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.549° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km S of Nea Apollonia, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-15 09:02:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-15 11:37:30 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 312 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 0.856 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 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 us1000hc9g Id of event.
Event Code 1000hc9g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hc9g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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