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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 51 km SSE of Ýdra, Greece

Posted by admin on August 17, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.9398S, 23.7364WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Ýdra in Greece. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/08/20 / 2020-08-17 07:27:02 / August 17, 2020 @ 7:27 am. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:27:02 / 7:27 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 23.7364 East, latitude 36.9398 North, depth = 93.46 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000bfuq. Id of event: us6000bfuq. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 93.46 km (58 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Glyfáda, Kalývia Thorikoú, Voúla. Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) from Glyfáda (c. 87 300 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Voúla (c. 28 400 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Vári (c. 15 900 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Kalývia Thorikoú (c. 14 400 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Keratéa (c. 7 500 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Lávrio (c. 7 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Aegina (c. 6 900 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 51 km SSE of Ýdra, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 23.7364° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9398° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 93.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51 km SSE of Ýdra, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-17 07:27:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-17 07:46:39 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 385 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 1.468 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 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 us6000bfuq Id of event.
Event Code 6000bfuq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000bfuq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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