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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 2 km S of Pérgamos, Cyprus


Earthquake location 35.0235S, 33.7103WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Pérgamos in Cyprus. Unique identifier: us7000d23a. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000d23a. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 68.47 km (43 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:27:06 / 2:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 33.7103° East, latitude 35.0235° North, depth = 68.47 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/01/21 / 2021-01-21 14:27:06 / January 21, 2021 @ 2:27 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rizokárpaso, Léfka, Ýpsonas. Close country/countries that might be effected, Cyprus (c. 1 103 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 35 km (22 miles) from Nicosia (c. 200 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Limassol (c. 154 000 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Larnaca (c. 72 000 pop), 23 km (15 miles) from Famagusta (c. 42 500 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Kyrenia (c. 26 700 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Protaras (c. 20 200 pop), 2 km (1 miles) from Pergamos (c. 15 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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. 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: 2 km S of Pérgamos, Cyprus.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 33.7103° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.0235° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 68.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km S of Pérgamos, Cyprus Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-21 14:27:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-21 14:44:52 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 369 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 0.317 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us7000d23a Id of event.
Event Code 7000d23a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d23a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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