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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Mouzaki in Greece

Posted by admin on October 26, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.599S, 20.3154WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Mouzaki in Greece. Unique identifier: us1000hhhp. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hhhp. The temblor was detected at 11:14:25 / 11:14 am (local time epicenter). 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 location of earthquake, longitude 20.3154 East, latitude 37.599 North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/10/18 / 2018-10-26 10:14:25 / October 26, 2018 @ 10:14 am.

Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pýrgos, Amaliáda, Gastoúni (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 99 km (62 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 46 km WSW of Mouzaki, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.3154° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.599° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km WSW of Mouzaki, 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 10:14:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-26 10:59:47 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 340 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 2.149 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 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 us1000hhhp Id of event.
Event Code 1000hhhp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hhhp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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