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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 19 km SW of Mouzaki, Greece

Posted by admin on January 23, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.6108S, 20.6597WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Mouzaki in Greece. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 20.6597 East, latitude 37.6108 North, depth = 10 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:44:00 / 12:44 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000j6lm. Id of event: us2000j6lm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 20/01/19 / 2019-01-20 10:44:00 / January 20, 2019 @ 10:44 am UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Zacháro (c. 5 900 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zacháro, Pýrgos, Argostólion (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

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 nine, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 19 km SW of Mouzaki, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.6597° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.6108° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km 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 2019-01-20 10:44:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-23 07:05:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 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 271 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 1.096 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 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 us2000j6lm Id of event.
Event Code 2000j6lm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j6lm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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