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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 75 km S of Ierapetra, Greece


Earthquake location 34.34S, 25.5954WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Ierapetra in Greece. Unique identifier: us70009l27. Ids that are associated to the event: us70009l27. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:09:14 / 9:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 25.5954 East, latitude 34.34 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 19/05/20 / 2020-05-19 19:09:14 / May 19, 2020 @ 7:09 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ágios Nikólaos, Ierápetra. Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Ierápetra (c. 12 500 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Ágios Nikólaos (c. 10 800 pop). Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days fifty-six and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 75 km S of Ierapetra, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 25.5954° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.34° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km S 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 2020-05-19 19:09:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-19 20:43:58 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 354 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 1.109 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us70009l27 Id of event.
Event Code 70009l27 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009l27, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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