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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 42 km W of Katastarion, Greece


Earthquake location 37.7623S, 20.2966WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Katastarion in Greece on Tuesday. Unique identifier: us700069tx. Ids that are associated to the event: us700069tx. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 19/11/19 / 2019-11-19 09:50:20 / November 19, 2019 @ 9:50 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 20.2966 East, latitude 37.7623 North, depth = 35 km. The temblor was picked up at 10:50:20 / 10:50 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Amaliáda, Gastoúni, Zákynthos (min 5000 pop).

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 eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 42 km W of Katastarion, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.2966° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.7623° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km W of Katastarion, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-19 09:50:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-24 14:10:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 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 298 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 1.42 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 152 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 us700069tx Id of event.
Event Code 700069tx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700069tx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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