A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Mouzaki in Greece. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 20.4248 East, latitude 37.326 North, depth = 35 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 03:22:11 / 3:22 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/08/19 / 2019-08-17 02:22:11 / August 17, 2019 @ 2:22 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us600056b3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600056b3.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Argostólion, Gastoúni, Zákynthos. Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-four 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 56 km SW of Mouzaki, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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