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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Kalávryta in Greece

Posted by admin on August 22, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.1127S, 22.0172WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Kalávryta in Greece on Saturday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000biw2. Id of event: us6000biw2. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 22.0172° East, latitude 38.1127° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 04:31:55 / 4:31 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 22/08/20 / 2020-08-22 04:31:55 / August 22, 2020 @ 4:31 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Pátra (c. 163 400 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Lamía (c. 52 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Agrínio (c. 46 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kórinthos (c. 30 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Trípoli (c. 26 600 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Árgos (c. 22 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lamía, Orchomenós, Náfplio. Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 12 km NW of Kalávryta, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 22.0172° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1127° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km NW of Kalávryta, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-22 04:31:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-22 04:55:55 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 312 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 0.935 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 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 us6000biw2 Id of event.
Event Code 6000biw2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000biw2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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