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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Ionian Sea


Earthquake location 37.1614S, 20.5799WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, Ionian Sea kilometers (0 miles) from Ionian Sea. Event id: us1000huda. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000huda. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/11/18 / 2018-11-20 10:16:49 / November 20, 2018 @ 10:16 am. The temblor was reported at 10:16:49 / 10:16 am (local time epicenter). 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). Exact location of event, longitude 20.5799 East, latitude 37.1614 North, depth = 10 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Filiatrá (c. 7 000 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Gargaliánoi (c. 6 300 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Kyparissía (c. 5 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Amaliáda, Kyparissía, Gastoúni (min 5000 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.5799° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.1614° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Ionian Sea Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-20 10:16:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-20 10:35:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 1.074 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 140 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 us1000huda Id of event.
Event Code 1000huda An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000huda, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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