A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Lithakia in Greece on Thursday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/11/18 / 2018-11-22 11:11:30 / November 22, 2018 @ 11:11 am. Exact location of event, longitude 20.5556 East, latitude 37.2289 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 12:11:30 / 12:11 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hvdp. Id of event: us1000hvdp.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gargaliánoi, Amaliáda, Pýrgos. Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Filiatrá (c. 7 000 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Gargaliánoi (c. 6 300 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty 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.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 59 km SSW of Lithakia, Greece.
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