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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Lixourion in Greece


Earthquake location 37.9702S, 20.1615WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Lixourion in Greece. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:20:54 / 8:20 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us60009aes. Unique identifier: us60009aes. Global time and date of event 23/04/20 / 2020-04-23 07:20:54 / April 23, 2020 @ 7:20 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.15 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 20.1615 East, latitude 37.9702 North, depth = 5.15 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zákynthos, Argostólion (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 67 km (42 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 34 km SW of Lixourion, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.1615° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.9702° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km SW of Lixourion, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-23 07:20:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-23 08:37:10 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 284 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 1.608 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us60009aes Id of event.
Event Code 60009aes An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60009aes, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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