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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Lithakia in Greece

Posted by admin on November 1, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.2459S, 20.7923WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Lithakia in Greece. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:16:36 / 2:16 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/10/18 / 2018-10-26 01:16:36 / October 26, 2018 @ 1:16 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us2000i5aj. Event ids that are associated: us2000i5aj. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 20.7923° East, 37.2459° North.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (46 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Filiatrá (c. 7 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Gargaliánoi (c. 6 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Zacháro (c. 5 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pýlos, Zacháro, Amaliáda. Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-one, in the last 10 days seventy-three, in the past 30 days seventy-five and in the last 365 days ninety-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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: 52 km S of Lithakia, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.7923° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2459° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52km S 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 2018-10-26 01:16:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-01 22:55:56 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 312 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 3.147 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 154 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 us2000i5aj Id of event.
Event Code 2000i5aj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000i5aj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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