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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Skiáthos in Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Skiáthos in Greece. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 23.3958 East, latitude 39.1278 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 17/10/20 / 2020-10-17 20:31:59 / October 17, 2020 @ 8:31 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:31:59 / 8:31 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000c91f. Unique identifier: us6000c91f.

Event epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Vólos (c. 84 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Chalkída (c. 54 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Lamía (c. 52 000 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Néa Ionía (c. 32 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Thívai (c. 22 000 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Livadeiá (c. 21 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Thívai, Livadeiá, Fársala (min 5000 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five 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. 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: 9 km WSW of Skiáthos, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	23.3958° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.1278° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km WSW of Skiáthos, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-10-17 20:31:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-17 21:31:26	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	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	247	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	1.199	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	49	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	us6000c91f	Id of event.
Event Code	6000c91f	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000c91f,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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