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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Ierapetra in Greece

Posted by admin on May 20, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 34.1778S, 25.5069WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 94 km SSW of Ierapetra, Greece (58 miles). Exact location, longitude 25.5069° East, latitude 34.1778° North, depth = 5.5 km. The temblor was detected at 03:06:19 / 3:06 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/05/20 / 2020-05-20 01:06:19 / May 20, 2020 @ 1:06 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us70009l9u. Ids that are associated to the event: us70009l9u. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days thirty-one, in the past 30 days fifty-nine and in the last 365 days seventy-four 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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: 94 km SSW of Ierapetra, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 25.5069° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.1778° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 94km 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 2020-05-20 01:06:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-20 01:17:07 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 259 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 1.218 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us70009l9u Id of event.
Event Code 70009l9u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009l9u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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