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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Karpathos in Greece

Posted by admin on February 10, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.2972S, 27.952WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 71 km ESE of Karpathos, Greece (44 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:13:13 / 6:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/01/20 / 2020-01-28 16:13:13 / January 28, 2020 @ 4:13 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 27.952 East, latitude 35.2972 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007k4y. Id of event: us70007k4y. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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: 71 km ESE of Karpathos, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 27.952° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.2972° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km 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 2020-01-28 16:13:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-10 22:19:15 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 4.421 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 181 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 us70007k4y Id of event.
Event Code 70007k4y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007k4y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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