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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Mouzaki in Greece


Earthquake location 37.3192S, 20.4987WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Mouzaki in Greece. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 20.4987° East, 37.3192° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/10/18 / 2018-10-28 05:32:50 / October 28, 2018 @ 5:32 am. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:32:50 / 6:32 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000hi5d. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hi5d. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Amaliáda, Pýrgos, Gastoúni (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days fourty-five, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

Questions or comments?

How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 53 km SSW of Mouzaki, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.4987° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.3192° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km SSW 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 2018-10-28 05:32:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-28 06:14:51 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 298 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 2.452 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us1000hi5d Id of event.
Event Code 1000hi5d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hi5d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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