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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Mouzaki in Greece


Earthquake location 37.5601S, 20.6793WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Mouzaki in Greece. Unique identifier: us700036qt. Ids that are associated to the event: us700036qt. Global time and date of event 16/04/19 / 2019-04-16 01:04:55 / April 16, 2019 @ 1:04 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 03:04:55 / 3:04 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.32 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 20.6793° East, 37.5601° North, depth 12.32 km.

Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Filiatrá (c. 7 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Filiatrá, Zacháro, Argostólion. Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days two hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 22 km SSW of Mouzaki, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.6793° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5601° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km SSW 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 2019-04-16 01:04:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-16 02:14:57 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 1.063 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us700036qt Id of event.
Event Code 700036qt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700036qt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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