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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Kanallakion in Greece

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Kanallakion in Greece. Id of earthquake: us70004iqc. Event ids that are associated: us70004iqc. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/07/19 / 2019-07-12 01:11:48 / July 12, 2019 @ 1:11 am. The temblor was reported at 03:11:48 / 3:11 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 20.5574° East, 39.3092° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gjirokastër, Sarandë, Kérkyra. Nearby country/countries, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Ioánnina (c. 64 000 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Kérkyra (c. 27 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Gjirokastër (c. 23 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Árta (c. 19 500 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Préveza (c. 17 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Sarandë (c. 15 100 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 9 km NNW of Kanallakion, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	20.5574° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.3092° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km NNW of Kanallakion, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-07-12 01:11:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-12 02:34:27	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	298	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	1.601	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	130	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	us70004iqc	Id of event.
Event Code	70004iqc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70004iqc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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