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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Pyrgos in Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Pyrgos in Greece. The temblor was reported at 17:31:27 / 5:31 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003kf8. Id of event: us70003kf8. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 21.2839° East, 37.6124° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/05/19 / 2019-05-13 15:31:27 / May 13, 2019 @ 3:31 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Pátra (c. 163 400 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Mesolóngi (c. 12 700 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Argostólion, Messíni, Río (min 5000 pop). 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 15 km WSW of Pyrgos, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	21.2839° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.6124° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km WSW of Pyrgos, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-05-13 15:31:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-05-13 15:55:51	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	120	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	312	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	1.631	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.77 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	97	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	us70003kf8	Id of event.
Event Code	70003kf8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70003kf8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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