Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Methoni in Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Methoni in Greece. The temblor was detected at 20:28:59 / 8:28 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hde7. Id of event: us1000hde7. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 21.4368° East, 36.7042° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/10/18 / 2018-10-12 19:28:59 / October 12, 2018 @ 7:28 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Kalamáta (c. 51 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Filiatrá (c. 7 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Messíni (c. 6 800 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Gargaliánoi (c. 6 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Zacháro (c. 5 900 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Pýlos (c. 5 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zacháro, Kalamáta, Kyparissía (min 5000 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-two, in the last 10 days fifty-two, in the past 30 days fifty-three and in the last 365 days sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 27 km WSW of Methoni, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	21.4368° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.7042° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27km WSW of Methoni, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-10-12 19:28:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-09 17:06:32	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	271	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	3.136	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	162	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	us1000hde7	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hde7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hde7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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