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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 20 km N of Palekastro, Greece

Posted by admin on October 14, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.3869S, 26.2558WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Palekastro in Greece. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 10:58:29 / 10:58 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000c882. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000c882. Exact location of event, longitude 26.2558 East, latitude 35.3869 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/10/20 / 2020-10-14 10:58:29 / October 14, 2020 @ 10:58 am.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Goúvai, Ierápetra, Ágios Nikólaos (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Ierápetra (c. 12 500 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Ágios Nikólaos (c. 10 800 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Siteía (c. 8 700 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Goúvai (c. 7 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 20 km N of Palekastro, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 26.2558° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.3869° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20 km N of Palekastro, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-14 10:58:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-14 11:14:12 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 0.756 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 169 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 us6000c882 Id of event.
Event Code 6000c882 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c882, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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