Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Lithakia in Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Lithakia in Greece. Unique identifier: us2000jiy5. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000jiy5. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/02/19 / 2019-02-16 20:53:13 / February 16, 2019 @ 8:53 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.19 km (10 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 20.9782° East, 37.3338° North, depth 16.19 km. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:53:13 / 9:53 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pýlos, Gargaliánoi, Kyparissía (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Filiatrá (c. 7 000 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Gargaliánoi (c. 6 300 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days two hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	20.9782° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.3338° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.19 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	44km SSE 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	2019-02-16 20:53:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-02-21 05:01:08	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	246	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	0.771	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.87 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	134	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	us2000jiy5	Id of event.
Event Code	2000jiy5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000jiy5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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