Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Ayia Marina in Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Ayia Marina in Greece. Global time and date of event 29/04/20 / 2020-04-29 10:28:18 / April 29, 2020 @ 10:28 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 12:28:18 / 12:28 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us70009afw. Event ids that are associated: us70009afw. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 23.6324° East, 37.6106° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vasilikón, Kiáto, Thívai. Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Athens (c. 664 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Piraeus (c. 163 700 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Peristéri (c. 140 000 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Kallithéa (c. 100 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Acharnés (c. 99 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Níkaia (c. 89 400 pop).

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 17 km SSE of Ayia Marina, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	23.6324° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.6106° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km SSE of Ayia Marina, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-04-29 10:28:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-28 12:50:55	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	271	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	1.426	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	73	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	us70009afw	Id of event.
Event Code	70009afw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70009afw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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