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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 23 km NE of Symi, Greece


Earthquake location 36.7766S, 28.0064WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Symi in Greece. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/01/19 / 2019-01-22 20:12:07 / January 22, 2019 @ 8:12 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000j7fs. Unique identifier: us2000j7fs. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:12:07 / 10:12 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 28.0064° East, latitude 36.7766° North, depth = 79.48 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 79.48 km (49 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fethiye, Didim, Çine (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) from Fethiye (c. 60 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Ródos (c. 56 100 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Muğla (c. 48 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Milas (c. 43 200 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Bodrum (c. 39 300 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Marmaris (c. 33 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Didim (c. 26 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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: 23 km NE of Symi, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 28.0064° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7766° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 79.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km NE of Symi, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-22 20:12:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-23 02:27:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 355 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 0.569 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us2000j7fs Id of event.
Event Code 2000j7fs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j7fs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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