A 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.
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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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