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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Kefalovryson in Greece


Earthquake location 40.0034S, 20.5212WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Kefalovryson in Greece. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37.54 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us60003s77. Unique identifier: us60003s77. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/05/19 / 2019-05-25 22:35:27 / May 25, 2019 @ 10:35 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 20.5212 East, latitude 40.0034 North, depth = 37.54 km. The temblor was detected at 00:35:27 / 12:35 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Ioánnina (c. 64 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Korçë (c. 58 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Berat (c. 46 900 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Kérkyra (c. 27 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Gjirokastër (c. 23 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Sarandë (c. 15 100 pop). Close country/countries, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Berat, Siátista, Kastoriá (min 5000 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 3 km WSW of Kefalovryson, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.5212° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.0034° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km WSW of Kefalovryson, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-25 22:35:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-25 22:56:50 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 259 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 0.629 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us60003s77 Id of event.
Event Code 60003s77 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60003s77, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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