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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 96 km SSW of Ierapetra, Greece


Earthquake location 34.1592S, 25.5132WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 96 kilometers (60 miles) from Ierapetra in Greece. The temblor was detected at 15:45:24 / 3:45 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 02/05/20 / 2020-05-02 13:45:24 / May 2, 2020 @ 1:45 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 25.5132 East, latitude 34.1592 North, depth = 39.54 km. Id of earthquake: us700098s3. Event ids that are associated: us700098s3. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 39.54 km (25 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ierápetra. Event epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) from Ierápetra (c. 12 500 pop). Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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: 96 km SSW of Ierapetra, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 25.5132° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.1592° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 96km SSW of Ierapetra, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-02 13:45:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-02 14:06:41 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 340 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 1.237 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 236 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 us700098s3 Id of event.
Event Code 700098s3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700098s3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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