A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Mouzaki in Greece on Monday. Exact location, longitude 20.4673° East, latitude 37.4656° North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/03/19 / 2019-03-31 23:22:45 / March 31, 2019 @ 11:22 pm. The temblor was picked up at 00:22:45 / 12:22 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000k864. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000k864.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pýrgos, Amaliáda, Gastoúni. Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). The epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days two hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 42 km SW of Mouzaki, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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