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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Kamarion in Greece


Earthquake location 36.5948S, 25.7287WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Kamarion in Greece. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hx8s. Unique identifier: us1000hx8s. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 01:16:10 / 1:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 25.7287° East, 36.5948° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/11/18 / 2018-11-27 23:16:10 / November 27, 2018 @ 11:16 pm.

Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mykonos, Páros, Naxos. The epicenter was 101 km (63 miles) from Mykonos (c. 7 700 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Naxos (c. 7 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Páros (c. 5 300 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 24 km SSW of Kamarion, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 25.7287° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5948° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km SSW of Kamarion, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-27 23:16:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-27 23:36:22 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 369 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 1.471 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 us1000hx8s Id of event.
Event Code 1000hx8s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hx8s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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