A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Mouzaki in Greece. Exact location of event, longitude 20.6777 East, latitude 37.5832 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:25:57 / 1:25 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us70003d5r. Event ids that are associated: us70003d5r. Global time and date of event 27/04/19 / 2019-04-27 23:25:57 / April 27, 2019 @ 11:25 pm UTC/GMT.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zacháro, Argostólion, Pýrgos (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Zacháro (c. 5 900 pop). Close 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 earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days two hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 20 km SW of Mouzaki, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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