Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Karyes in Greece

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Karyes in Greece. The temblor was picked up at 13:39:55 / 1:39 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14.084 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/08/24 / 2024-08-12 13:39:55 / August 12, 2024 @ 1:39 pm. Exact location of event, depth 14.084 km, 24.1618° East, 40.1579° North. Unique identifier: us6000njlf. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000njlf.

Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (56 miles) from Kavála (c. 54 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Polýgyros (c. 10 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Néa Moudhaniá (c. 9 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Mýrina (c. 5 400 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Karyes (c. 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kavála, Mýrina, Néa Moudhaniá (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 13 km SSW of Karyes, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	24.1618° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.1579° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.084 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km SSW of Karyes, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-12 13:39:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-12 15:38:18	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	284	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	1.811	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.43 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	115	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	us6000njlf	Id of event.
Event Code	6000njlf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000njlf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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