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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Makry Gialos in Greece

Posted by admin on April 3, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 34.2989S, 26.1549WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Makry Gialos in Greece. The temblor was picked up at 02:02:53 / 2:02 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us70008m5k. Unique identifier: us70008m5k. Exact location of event, longitude 26.1549 East, latitude 34.2989 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/04/20 / 2020-04-03 00:02:53 / April 3, 2020 @ 12:02 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ierápetra. Earthquake epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Ierápetra (c. 12 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 84 km SSE of Makry Gialos, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 26.1549° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.2989° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km SSE of Makry Gialos, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-03 00:02:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-03 00:17:42 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 234 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 1.434 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 182 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 us70008m5k Id of event.
Event Code 70008m5k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008m5k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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