Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Lithakia in Greece

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Lithakia in Greece. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/10/18 / 2018-10-27 00:05:35 / October 27, 2018 @ 12:05 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 20.6726 East, latitude 37.5257 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hhts. Unique identifier: us1000hhts. The temblor was detected at 02:05:35 / 2:05 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kyparissía, Filiatrá, Zacháro (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Filiatrá (c. 7 000 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Zacháro (c. 5 900 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-three, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 25 km SSW of Lithakia, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	20.6726° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.5257° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25km 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	2018-10-27 00:05:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-27 00:30:41	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	120	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	2.289	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	101	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	us1000hhts	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hhts	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hhts,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.6 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

20.6726° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

37.5257° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

25km 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

2018-10-27 00:05:35

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2018-10-27 00:30:41

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

120

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

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

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

2.289

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.3 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

101

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us1000hhts

Id of event.

Event Code

1000hhts

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us1000hhts,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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