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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Ionian Sea


Earthquake location 37.9148S, 20.5982WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported Ionian Sea kilometers (0 miles) from Ionian Sea on Monday. Unique identifier: us60004wxd. Ids that are associated to the event: us60004wxd. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 20.5982 East, latitude 37.9148 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 29/07/19 / 2019-07-29 04:18:10 / July 29, 2019 @ 4:18 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 04:18:10 / 4:18 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pýrgos, Amaliáda, Gastoúni.

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.5982° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.9148° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Ionian Sea Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-29 04:18:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-29 05:06:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 158 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 1.285 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us60004wxd Id of event.
Event Code 60004wxd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60004wxd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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