Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Mouzaki in Greece

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Mouzaki in Greece. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/11/18 / 2018-11-09 17:53:00 / November 9, 2018 @ 5:53 pm. Event id: us1000hpw6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hpw6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:53:00 / 6:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 20.3315 East, latitude 37.5635 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Amaliáda, Gastoúni, Argostólion.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days one hundred and two and in the last 365 days one hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 46 km WSW of Mouzaki, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	20.3315° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.5635° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	46km WSW of Mouzaki, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-11-09 17:53:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-09 20:26:42	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	2.146	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	131	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	us1000hpw6	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hpw6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hpw6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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