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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Filiátes in Greece

Posted by admin on September 7, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.6585S, 20.3084WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Filiátes in Greece on Saturday. 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 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/08/20 / 2020-08-29 00:18:28 / August 29, 2020 @ 12:18 am. The temblor was picked up at 00:18:28 / 12:18 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 20.3084° East, 39.6585° North. Id of earthquake: us7000ben2. Event ids that are associated: us7000ben2.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Çorovodë, Préveza, Ersekë. Epicenter of the earthquake was 47 km (29 miles) from Ioánnina (c. 64 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Kérkyra (c. 27 000 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Gjirokastër (c. 23 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Árta (c. 19 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Préveza (c. 17 300 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Sarandë (c. 15 100 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Çorovodë (c. 14 000 pop). Close country/countries, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), 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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 6 km N of Filiátes, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.3084° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.6585° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km N of Filiátes, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-29 00:18:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-29 22:34:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 10 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 315 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 0.398 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 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 mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000ben2 Id of event.
Event Code 7000ben2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ben2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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