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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Mouzaki in Greece


Earthquake location 37.6488S, 20.4715WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Mouzaki in Greece. Exact location of event, longitude 20.4715 East, latitude 37.6488 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 12:00:05 / 12:00 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/11/18 / 2018-11-15 11:00:05 / November 15, 2018 @ 11:00 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us1000hs3z. Event ids that are associated: us1000hs3z.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Event epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pýrgos, Amaliáda, Gastoúni.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 31 km WSW of Mouzaki, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.4715° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.6488° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km WSW 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 2018-11-15 11:00:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-15 11:21:29 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 326 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 1.249 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us1000hs3z Id of event.
Event Code 1000hs3z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hs3z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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