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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Ionian Sea

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes Ionian Sea kilometers (0 miles) from Ionian Sea on Friday. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:43:19 / 10:43 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 6.2 km (4 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/10/19 / 2019-10-11 22:43:19 / October 11, 2019 @ 10:43 pm. Event id: us70005tkd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005tkd. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 20.8778 East, latitude 37.6805 North, depth = 6.2 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pátra, Gargaliánoi, Ovriá. The epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from Pátra (c. 163 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Mesolóngi (c. 12 700 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop).

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 two and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: Ionian Sea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	20.8778° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.6805° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.2 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	2019-10-11 22:43:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-10-11 23:03:46	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	340	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	0.972	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.06 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	71	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	us70005tkd	Id of event.
Event Code	70005tkd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70005tkd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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