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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Vartholomion in Greece

Posted by admin on May 21, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.8741S, 21.1914WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Vartholomion in Greece on Tuesday. Unique identifier: us70003nvj. Ids that are associated to the event: us70003nvj. 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, 21.1914° East, 37.8741° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/05/19 / 2019-05-21 08:58:20 / May 21, 2019 @ 8:58 am. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:58:20 / 10:58 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Megalópoli, Gargaliánoi, Aígio. The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Pátra (c. 163 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Agrínio (c. 46 900 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Aígio (c. 20 700 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Náfpaktos (c. 13 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Mesolóngi (c. 12 700 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 one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days two hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 1 km NW of Vartholomion, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 21.1914° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.8741° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km NW of Vartholomion, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-21 08:58:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-21 12:26:45 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 340 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 0.906 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us70003nvj Id of event.
Event Code 70003nvj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003nvj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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