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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Lithakia in Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Lithakia in Greece on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 20.6203° East, 37.3894° North, depth 18.5 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:03:18 / 11:03 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 18.5 km (11 miles). Id of earthquake: us1000hdme. Event ids that are associated: us1000hdme. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/10/18 / 2018-10-17 22:03:18 / October 17, 2018 @ 10:03 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Filiatrá (c. 7 000 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Gargaliánoi (c. 6 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gargaliánoi, Kyparissía, 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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 40 km SSW of Lithakia, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	20.6203° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.3894° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	18.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	40km SSW of Lithakia, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-10-17 22:03:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-18 01:42:05	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	326	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	2.408	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.02 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	79	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	us1000hdme	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hdme	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hdme,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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