A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Mouzaki in Greece on Monday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/11/18 / 2018-11-12 02:40:08 / November 12, 2018 @ 2:40 am. The temblor was picked up at 03:40:08 / 3:40 am (local time epicenter). 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). Exact location of event, longitude 20.356 East, latitude 37.5223 North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us1000hqq5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hqq5.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Amaliáda, Gastoúni, Argostólion. Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-six, in the last 10 days fifty, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-six 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 46 km WSW of Mouzaki, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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