Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Lithakia in Greece

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Lithakia in Greece. The temblor was reported at 23:40:55 / 11:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 20.5891° East, latitude 37.2294° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/10/18 / 2018-10-26 22:40:55 / October 26, 2018 @ 10:40 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us1000hht9. Event ids that are associated: us1000hht9.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Amaliáda, Gastoúni, Pýrgos. Epicenter of the event was 90 km (56 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Filiatrá (c. 7 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-nine, in the last 10 days thirty-one, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every 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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 58 km SSW of Lithakia, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	20.5891° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.2294° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	58km 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	2018-10-26 22:40:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-26 23:24:22	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	271	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	2.556	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	102	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	us1000hht9	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hht9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hht9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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