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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Karyes in Greece


Earthquake location 39.9968S, 24.3995WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Karyes in Greece. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000c1xc. Event ids that are associated: us6000c1xc. Exact location, longitude 24.3995° East, latitude 39.9968° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 12:22:20 / 12:22 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/09/20 / 2020-09-27 12:22:20 / September 27, 2020 @ 12:22 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Néa Moudhaniá, Polýgyros, Mýrina. Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Polýgyros (c. 10 000 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Néa Moudhaniá (c. 9 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Mýrina (c. 5 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Karyes (c. 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 31 km SSE of Karyes, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 24.3995° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.9968° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31 km SSE of Karyes, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-27 12:22:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-27 12:39:49 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 340 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 1.538 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 us6000c1xc Id of event.
Event Code 6000c1xc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c1xc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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