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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Ierápetra in Greece


Earthquake location 34.2217S, 25.9099WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Ierápetra in Greece. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/05/20 / 2020-05-22 11:01:54 / May 22, 2020 @ 11:01 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us70009n99. Unique identifier: us70009n99. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 25.9099° East, 34.2217° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was detected at 11:01:54 / 11:01 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ierápetra. Epicenter of the event was 89 km (55 miles) from Ierápetra (c. 12 500 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days sixty-one, in the past 30 days ninety-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 88 km S of Ierápetra, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 25.9099° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.2217° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88 km S of Ierápetra, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-22 11:01:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-30 05:33:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 284 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 1.355 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us70009n99 Id of event.
Event Code 70009n99 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009n99, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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