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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Ionian Sea


Earthquake location 37.4388S, 20.1543WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, Ionian Sea kilometers (0 miles) from Ionian Sea. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/11/18 / 2018-11-09 08:20:37 / November 9, 2018 @ 8:20 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000hsr7. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hsr7. Exact location, longitude 20.1543° East, latitude 37.4388° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 08:20:37 / 8:20 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Argostólion, Zákynthos. Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty, in the last 10 days seventy-eight, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-two 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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: Ionian Sea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.1543° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4388° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Ionian Sea Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-09 08:20:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-06 06:43:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 284 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 2.287 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 167 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 us1000hsr7 Id of event.
Event Code 1000hsr7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hsr7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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