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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag was detected near Karpathos in Greece

Posted by admin on January 30, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.193S, 27.91WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was reported 72 km ESE of Karpathos, Greece (45 miles) on Thursday. 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: us60007jpa. Unique identifier: us60007jpa. Exact location, longitude 27.91° East, latitude 35.193° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 03:28:06 / 3:28 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/01/20 / 2020-01-30 01:28:06 / January 30, 2020 @ 1:28 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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 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: 72 km ESE of Karpathos, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 27.91° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.193° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72km ESE of Karpathos, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-30 01:28:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-30 01:45:16 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 3.798 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 482 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 0.706 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60007jpa Id of event.
Event Code 60007jpa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007jpa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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