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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Lithakia in Greece


Earthquake location 37.3924S, 20.5621WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Lithakia in Greece. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:00:07 / 8:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 20.5621° East, latitude 37.3924° North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/10/18 / 2018-10-28 19:00:07 / October 28, 2018 @ 7:00 pm. Unique identifier: us1000hi9l. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hi9l.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Zacháro, Filiatrá, Argostólion. Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 84 km (52 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Filiatrá (c. 7 000 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Zacháro (c. 5 900 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days fourty-seven, in the past 30 days fourty-nine and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 43 km SSW of Lithakia, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.5621° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.3924° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km 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 2018-10-28 19:00:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-28 19:40:14 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 2.393 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 150 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 us1000hi9l Id of event.
Event Code 1000hi9l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hi9l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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