Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Karpathos in Greece

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 9 km SSW of Karpathos, Greece (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 27.1857° East, 35.4258° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us600044sc. Ids that are associated to the event: us600044sc. Global time and date of event 22/06/19 / 2019-06-22 21:18:55 / June 22, 2019 @ 9:18 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 23:18:55 / 11:18 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km SSW of Karpathos, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	27.1857° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.4258° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km SSW of Karpathos, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-06-22 21:18:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-06-23 06:06:37	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	120	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	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	130	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	0.122	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.62 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	199	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us600044sc	Id of event.
Event Code	600044sc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us600044sc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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