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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Lithakia in Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Lithakia in Greece on Sunday. Id of earthquake: us2000i6ks. Event ids that are associated: us2000i6ks. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 20.6999 East, latitude 37.2147 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 04:04:31 / 4:04 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/11/18 / 2018-11-04 03:04:31 / November 4, 2018 @ 3:04 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pýlos, Zacháro, Amaliáda (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (52 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Filiatrá (c. 7 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Gargaliánoi (c. 6 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Zacháro (c. 5 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 two, in the last 10 days eighty-seven, in the past 30 days ninety and in the last 365 days one hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 56 km SSW of Lithakia, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	20.6999° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.2147° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	56km 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	2018-11-04 03:04:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-04 03:25:37	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	2.217	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.32 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	102	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	us2000i6ks	Id of event.
Event Code	2000i6ks	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000i6ks,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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