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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Lithakia in Greece

Posted by admin on November 15, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.4902S, 20.7992WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Lithakia in Greece. The earthquake was roughly 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). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000i5b9. Id of event: us2000i5b9. The temblor was detected at 09:08:38 / 9:08 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 26/10/18 / 2018-10-26 07:08:38 / October 26, 2018 @ 7:08 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 20.7992° East, latitude 37.4902° North, depth = 10 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gargaliánoi, Kyparissía, Argostólion. Earthquake epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 35 km (21 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Filiatrá (c. 7 000 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 one hundred and twenty-seven, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 25 km S of Lithakia, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.7992° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4902° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km S 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 07:08:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-15 10:54:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 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 298 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 2.354 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us2000i5b9 Id of event.
Event Code 2000i5b9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000i5b9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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