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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 36 km SW of Lithakia, Greece

Posted by admin on November 14, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.4502S, 20.5955WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Lithakia in Greece. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:00:56 / 7:00 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000i5b6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000i5b6. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/10/18 / 2018-10-26 06:00:56 / October 26, 2018 @ 6:00 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 20.5955° East, latitude 37.4502° North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kyparissía, Filiatrá, Zacháro (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Filiatrá (c. 7 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Zacháro (c. 5 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and nineteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 36 km SW of Lithakia, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.5955° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4502° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km SW of Lithakia, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-26 06:00:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-14 12:33:38 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 340 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 2.344 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us2000i5b6 Id of event.
Event Code 2000i5b6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000i5b6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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