A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Mouzaki in Greece. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/10/18 / 2018-10-29 04:52:12 / October 29, 2018 @ 4:52 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 05:52:12 / 5:52 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 20.5339 East, latitude 37.544 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hidk. Unique identifier: us1000hidk. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pýrgos, Amaliáda, Gastoúni (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 81 km (50 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days fourty-nine, in the past 30 days fifty-one and in the last 365 days sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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