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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Kamárai in Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Kamárai in Greece. Exact location of earthquake, 22.0192° East, 38.3731° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/12/20 / 2020-12-30 00:39:22 / December 30, 2020 @ 12:39 am. Id of earthquake: us6000d45s. Event ids that are associated: us6000d45s. The temblor was reported at 00:39:22 / 12:39 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kórinthos, Loutráki, Pýrgos. Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Pátra (c. 163 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Lamía (c. 52 000 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Agrínio (c. 46 900 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Kórinthos (c. 30 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Livadeiá (c. 21 500 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Aígio (c. 20 700 pop).

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 six and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km NNE of Kamárai, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	22.0192° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.3731° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 km NNE of Kamárai, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-12-30 00:39:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-30 00:56:47	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	326	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	1.194	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.92 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	43	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	us6000d45s	Id of event.
Event Code	6000d45s	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000d45s,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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