A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Karpathos in Greece. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us60005m47. Unique identifier: us60005m47. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/09/19 / 2019-09-23 07:09:03 / September 23, 2019 @ 7:09 am. The temblor was picked up at 09:09:03 / 9:09 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 27.284 East, latitude 35.9905 North, depth = 10 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Triánta, Faliraki, Datça (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Triánta (c. 11 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Datça (c. 10 100 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Faliraki (c. 6 000 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Afántou (c. 5 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Archángelos (c. 5 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 54 km N of Karpathos, Greece.
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