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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Ierapetra in Greece

Posted by admin on May 8, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 34.1181S, 25.5198WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 100 km SSW of Ierapetra, Greece (62 miles) on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us70009c68. Ids that are associated to the event: us70009c68. Exact location of event, depth 21.24 km, 25.5198° East, 34.1181° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/05/20 / 2020-05-08 05:40:27 / May 8, 2020 @ 5:40 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 21.24 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:40:27 / 7:40 am (local time epicenter).

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

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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 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: 100 km SSW of Ierapetra, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 25.5198° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.1181° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 100km 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 2020-05-08 05:40:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-08 05:57:05 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 246 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 1.277 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 160 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 us70009c68 Id of event.
Event Code 70009c68 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009c68, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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