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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Filiatra in Greece

Posted by admin on October 28, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.237S, 21.0696WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Filiatra in Greece. Exact location, longitude 21.0696° East, latitude 37.237° North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/10/18 / 2018-10-28 20:34:09 / October 28, 2018 @ 8:34 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hia3. Id of event: us1000hia3. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:34:09 / 9:34 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 95 km (59 miles) from Kalamáta (c. 51 100 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Filiatrá (c. 7 000 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Messíni (c. 6 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Megalópoli, Kalamáta, Messíni (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days fourty-eight, in the past 30 days fifty and in the last 365 days seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 46 km WNW of Filiatra, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 21.0696° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.237° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km WNW of Filiatra, 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 20:34:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-28 20:48:21 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 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 2.666 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 205 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 us1000hia3 Id of event.
Event Code 1000hia3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hia3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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