Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Kokkári in Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Kokkári in Greece. Exact location of event, depth 7.449 km, 26.8394° East, 37.8395° North. Id of earthquake: us7000md39. Event ids that are associated: us7000md39. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/04/24 / 2024-04-19 08:02:20 / April 19, 2024 @ 8:02 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.449 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 08:02:20 / 8:02 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Foça, Vrontádos, Aydın (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from İzmir (c. 2 500 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Karabağlar (c. 458 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Aydın (c. 163 000 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Söke (c. 68 200 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Kuşadası (c. 63 200 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Menemen (c. 53 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km NW of Kokkári, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	26.8394° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.8395° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.449 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 km NW of Kokkári, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-04-19 08:02:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-12 09:46:49	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	4.1	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	285	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	40	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.843	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.79 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	34	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000md39	Id of event.
Event Code	7000md39	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000md39,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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