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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Moíres in Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Moíres in Greece. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000njrz. Unique identifier: us6000njrz. The temblor was detected at 01:35:46 / 1:35 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 51.479 km, 24.9664° East, 34.9517° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 51.479 km (32 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/08/24 / 2024-08-13 01:35:46 / August 13, 2024 @ 1:35 am.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ágios Nikólaos, Ierápetra, Rethymno (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Irákleion (c. 137 200 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Rethymno (c. 29 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Ierápetra (c. 12 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Néa Alikarnassós (c. 11 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Ágios Nikólaos (c. 10 800 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Gázi (c. 9 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km SE of Moíres, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	24.9664° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.9517° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	51.479 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km SE of Moíres, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-13 01:35:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-13 02:03:21	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	298	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	34	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.863	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	162	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	us6000njrz	Id of event.
Event Code	6000njrz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000njrz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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