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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Lardos in Greece


Earthquake location 35.7626S, 28.2747WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Lardos in Greece. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 49.4 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/06/19 / 2019-06-07 12:21:40 / June 7, 2019 @ 12:21 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 28.2747° East, latitude 35.7626° North, depth = 49.4 km. Unique identifier: us70003wpv. Ids that are associated to the event: us70003wpv. The temblor was detected at 14:21:40 / 2:21 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ródos, Triánta, Faliraki (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Ródos (c. 56 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Triánta (c. 11 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Faliraki (c. 6 000 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Afántou (c. 5 600 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Archángelos (c. 5 400 pop). Nearby 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. Each 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 twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 43 km SSE of Lardos, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 28.2747° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7626° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km SSE of Lardos, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-07 12:21:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-11 10:18:12 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 0.467 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us70003wpv Id of event.
Event Code 70003wpv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003wpv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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