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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near Moutayiaka in Cyprus

Posted by admin on December 16, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 34.7188S, 33.0704WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Moutayiaka in Cyprus on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 33.0704 East, latitude 34.7188 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us2000itzk. Event ids that are associated: us2000itzk. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:30:27 / 3:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/12/18 / 2018-12-16 01:30:27 / December 16, 2018 @ 1:30 am.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kyrenia, Lápithos, Pergamos (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Cyprus (c. 1 103 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Nicosia (c. 200 500 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Limassol (c. 154 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Larnaca (c. 72 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Paphos (c. 36 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Kyrenia (c. 26 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Pergamos (c. 15 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 2 km W of Moutayiaka, Cyprus. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 33.0704° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.7188° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km W of Moutayiaka, Cyprus Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-16 01:30:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-16 07:31:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 236 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 0.323 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us2000itzk Id of event.
Event Code 2000itzk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000itzk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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