A 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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