A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Lapithos in Cyprus. Exact location of event, longitude 33.1343 East, latitude 35.2693 North, depth = 53.15 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 53.15 km (33 miles). The temblor was detected at 02:16:17 / 2:16 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000i0u6. Unique identifier: us1000i0u6. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/12/18 / 2018-12-03 00:16:17 / December 3, 2018 @ 12:16 am.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 24 km (15 miles) from Nicosia (c. 200 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Limassol (c. 154 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Larnaca (c. 72 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Famagusta (c. 42 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Paphos (c. 36 000 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Kyrenia (c. 26 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Paphos, Paralímni, Derýneia. Country/countries that might be effected, Cyprus (c. 1 103 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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