A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Mouzaki in Greece. Exact location of event, longitude 20.4739 East, latitude 37.3863 North, depth = 85.44 km. The temblor was detected at 20:57:10 / 8:57 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/11/18 / 2018-11-09 19:57:10 / November 9, 2018 @ 7:57 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 85.44 km (53 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us1000hpyz. Event ids that are associated: us1000hpyz.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pýrgos, Amaliáda, Argostólion (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 86 km (53 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 three, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days one hundred and three and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. 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: 48 km SW of Mouzaki, Greece.
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