Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Lithakia in Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Lithakia in Greece. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/01/19 / 2019-01-20 10:39:22 / January 20, 2019 @ 10:39 am. Id of earthquake: us2000j6lk. Event ids that are associated: us2000j6lk. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 12:39:22 / 12:39 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 20.6766° East, latitude 37.6129° North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zacháro, Pýrgos, Argostólion (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Zacháro (c. 5 900 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 17 km SW of Lithakia, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	20.6766° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.6129° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km SW of Lithakia, 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 10:39:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-01-23 07:03:19	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	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	1.084	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	144	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	us2000j6lk	Id of event.
Event Code	2000j6lk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000j6lk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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