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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Mouzaki in Greece


Earthquake location 37.5645S, 20.3867WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Mouzaki in Greece. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 20.3867 East, latitude 37.5645 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 19:04:32 / 7:04 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000hqly. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hqly. Global time and date of event 11/11/18 / 2018-11-11 18:04:32 / November 11, 2018 @ 6:04 pm UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pýrgos, Amaliáda, Gastoúni. Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-six, in the last 10 days sixty-four, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 42 km WSW of Mouzaki, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.3867° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5645° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km WSW 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 2018-11-11 18:04:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-10 15:44:18 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 312 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 2.113 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 164 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 us1000hqly Id of event.
Event Code 1000hqly An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hqly, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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