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

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Kamárai in Greece. 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: 12/01/21 / 2021-01-12 22:29:38 / January 12, 2021 @ 10:29 pm. Id of earthquake: us6000d7vx. Event ids that are associated: us6000d7vx. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 22.0337 East, latitude 38.3789 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:29:38 / 10:29 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kórinthos, Pýrgos, Loutráki. Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Pátra (c. 163 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Lamía (c. 52 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Agrínio (c. 46 900 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Kórinthos (c. 30 200 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Livadeiá (c. 21 500 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Aígio (c. 20 700 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 9 km NNE of Kamárai, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	22.0337° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.3789° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 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	2021-01-12 22:29:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-01-12 22:48:10	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	5	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	0.683	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.87 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	37	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	us6000d7vx	Id of event.
Event Code	6000d7vx	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000d7vx,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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