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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Tympakion in Greece


Earthquake location 34.5862S, 24.6131WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Tympakion in Greece on Sunday. Global time and date of event 26/04/20 / 2020-04-26 13:23:38 / April 26, 2020 @ 1:23 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 24.6131 East, latitude 34.5862 North, depth = 16.09 km. The temblor was picked up at 15:23:38 / 3:23 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us60009cr9. Event ids that are associated: us60009cr9. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.09 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gázi, Rethymno, Moíres. Epicenter of the event was 88 km (55 miles) from Rethymno (c. 29 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Gázi (c. 9 700 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Moíres (c. 6 500 pop). Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 55 km SSW of Tympakion, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 24.6131° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.5862° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km SSW of Tympakion, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-26 13:23:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-26 13:48:13 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 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 0.736 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us60009cr9 Id of event.
Event Code 60009cr9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60009cr9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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