A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Mouzaki in Greece. Global time and date of event 25/10/18 / 2018-10-25 23:19:44 / October 25, 2018 @ 11:19 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 20.4886 East, latitude 37.485 North, depth = 10 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:19:44 / 12:19 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000i4ml. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000i4ml. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly 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). Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 78 km (49 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 seventy-nine, in the last 10 days eighty-one, in the past 30 days eighty-three and in the last 365 days ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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