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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 41 km WSW of Mouzaki, Greece


Earthquake location 37.5992S, 20.3808WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Mouzaki in Greece. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006dp9. Id of event: us70006dp9. The temblor was picked up at 22:22:58 / 10:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 20.3808° East, 37.5992° North, depth 35.83 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 35.83 km (22 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 19/11/19 / 2019-11-19 21:22:58 / November 19, 2019 @ 9:22 pm UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Amaliáda, Gastoúni, Argostólion. Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 41 km WSW of Mouzaki, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.3808° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5992° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km WSW of Mouzaki, 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 21:22:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-30 04:07:51 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 271 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 1.299 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us70006dp9 Id of event.
Event Code 70006dp9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006dp9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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