A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Lithakia in Greece. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 20.5663° East, latitude 37.4624° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 23:41:19 / 11:41 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/04/20 / 2020-04-16 22:41:19 / April 16, 2020 @ 10:41 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us70008xzz. Ids that are associated to the event: us70008xzz.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pýrgos, Argostólion, Amaliáda. Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 36 km SW of Lithakia, Greece.
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