Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Mouzaki in Greece

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Mouzaki in Greece on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:58:47 / 10:58 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000hxxn. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hxxn. Exact location of earthquake, 20.3792° East, 37.4584° North, depth 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/11/18 / 2018-11-23 21:58:47 / November 23, 2018 @ 9:58 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 94 km (58 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Amaliáda, Gastoúni, Argostólion (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 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 three, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-two 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 49 km SW of Mouzaki, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	20.3792° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.4584° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	49km SW 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	2018-11-23 21:58:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-30 04:46:27	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	298	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	1.263	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.91 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	147	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	us1000hxxn	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hxxn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hxxn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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