A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Mouzaki in Greece. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/10/18 / 2018-10-28 03:24:15 / October 28, 2018 @ 3:24 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us1000hi4u. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hi4u. The temblor was reported at 04:24:15 / 4:24 am (local time epicenter). 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. Exact location of earthquake, 20.3538° East, 37.4751° North, depth 10 km.
Event epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop). Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Amaliáda, Gastoúni, Argostólion.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days fourty-four, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 49 km SW of Mouzaki, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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