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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Palaiochora in Greece


Earthquake location 35.0554S, 23.0568WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 60 km WSW of Palaiochora, Greece (37 miles) on Sunday. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:06:51 / 4:06 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 23.0568° East, latitude 35.0554° North, depth = 51.33 km. Global time and date of event 15/09/19 / 2019-09-15 02:06:51 / September 15, 2019 @ 2:06 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 51.33 km (32 miles). 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: us60005m91. Unique identifier: us60005m91.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 60 km WSW of Palaiochora, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 23.0568° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.0554° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km WSW of Palaiochora, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-15 02:06:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-24 22:59:16 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 312 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 1.519 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 175 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 us60005m91 Id of event.
Event Code 60005m91 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60005m91, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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