A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Lithakia in Greece. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/11/18 / 2018-11-05 13:03:24 / November 5, 2018 @ 1:03 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude 20.5326° East, latitude 37.2244° North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us1000hqxc. Event ids that are associated: us1000hqxc. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 14:03:24 / 2:03 pm (local time epicenter).
Event epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Filiatrá (c. 7 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Amaliáda, Pýrgos, Gastoúni. Close 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days eighty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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