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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Eloúnda in Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Eloúnda in Greece. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/09/20 / 2020-09-24 18:52:13 / September 24, 2020 @ 6:52 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000c0r2. Id of event: us6000c0r2. Exact location, longitude 25.8994° East, latitude 35.4008° North, depth = 5.87 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 5.87 km (4 miles). The temblor was detected at 18:52:13 / 6:52 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gázi, Irákleion, Néa Alikarnassós (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Irákleion (c. 137 200 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Ierápetra (c. 12 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Néa Alikarnassós (c. 11 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Ágios Nikólaos (c. 10 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Gázi (c. 9 700 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Siteía (c. 8 700 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 22 km NE of Eloúnda, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	25.8994° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.4008° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.87 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22 km NE of Eloúnda, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-09-24 18:52:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-24 21:54:32	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	0.832	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	62	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	us6000c0r2	Id of event.
Event Code	6000c0r2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000c0r2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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