A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Mouzaki in Greece on Saturday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 21:44:25 / 9:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 20.4118 East, latitude 37.4919 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/10/18 / 2018-10-27 20:44:25 / October 27, 2018 @ 8:44 pm. Unique identifier: us1000hi37. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hi37.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pýrgos, Amaliáda, Gastoúni. Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days fourty-two, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 44 km SW of Mouzaki, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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