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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Mouzaki in Greece

Posted by admin on October 26, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.523S, 20.5597WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Mouzaki in Greece. Global time and date of event 26/10/18 / 2018-10-26 12:41:13 / October 26, 2018 @ 12:41 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 20.5597° East, 37.523° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000hhj7. Event ids that are associated: us1000hhj7. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:41:13 / 1:41 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kyparissía, Filiatrá, Zacháro. Epicenter of the earthquake was 79 km (49 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Filiatrá (c. 7 000 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Zacháro (c. 5 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days fourty 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. 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: 32 km SW of Mouzaki, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.5597° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.523° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km SW 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 12:41:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-26 13:07:06 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 400 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 2.266 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000hhj7 Id of event.
Event Code 1000hhj7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hhj7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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