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

Posted by admin on November 9, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.4579S, 20.3926WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Mouzaki in Greece on Friday. The temblor was detected at 21:45:34 / 9:45 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000hq0y. Event ids that are associated: us1000hq0y. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/11/18 / 2018-11-09 20:45:34 / November 9, 2018 @ 8:45 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 20.3926 East, latitude 37.4579 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Amaliáda, Gastoúni, Argostólion. Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and five and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 48 km SW of Mouzaki, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.3926° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4579° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km SW 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 20:45:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-09 22:44:45 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 2.185 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143 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 us1000hq0y Id of event.
Event Code 1000hq0y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hq0y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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