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Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Pirgos in Greece

Posted by admin on May 2, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 34.1704S, 25.4354WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 95 kilometers (59 miles) from Pirgos in Greece. Id of earthquake: us700098rs. Event ids that are associated: us700098rs. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 35 km, 25.4354° East, 34.1704° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Global time and date of event 02/05/20 / 2020-05-02 13:33:53 / May 2, 2020 @ 1:33 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 15:33:53 / 3:33 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from Ierápetra (c. 12 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ierápetra.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 95 km SSE of Pirgos, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 25.4354° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.1704° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 95km SSE of Pirgos, 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 13:33:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-02 13:52:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 433 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 1.202 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us700098rs Id of event.
Event Code 700098rs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700098rs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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