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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Schísma Eloúndas in Greece


Earthquake location 35.2339S, 25.8476WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Schísma Eloúndas in Greece. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 24/09/20 / 2020-09-24 21:22:54 / September 24, 2020 @ 9:22 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 21:22:54 / 9:22 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000c0v5. Id of event: us6000c0v5. Exact location of event, longitude 25.8476 East, latitude 35.2339 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Moíres, Gázi, Irákleion (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 65 km (40 miles) from Irákleion (c. 137 200 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Ierápetra (c. 12 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Néa Alikarnassós (c. 11 900 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Ágios Nikólaos (c. 10 800 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Gázi (c. 9 700 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Siteía (c. 8 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. 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: 11 km ESE of Schísma Eloúndas, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 25.8476° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.2339° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11 km ESE of Schísma Eloúndas, 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 21:22:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-24 21:41:44 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 259 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 0.785 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 61 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 us6000c0v5 Id of event.
Event Code 6000c0v5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c0v5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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