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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 12 km ESE of Kastrí, Greece

Posted by admin on August 28, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 34.7984S, 24.2103WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Kastrí in Greece. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/08/24 / 2024-08-28 16:29:54 / August 28, 2024 @ 4:29 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 24.2103° East, latitude 34.7984° North, depth = 39.63 km. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:29:54 / 4:29 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nn9g. Id of event: us6000nn9g. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.63 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Néa Alikarnassós, Irákleion, Gázi. Epicenter of the earthquake was 103 km (64 miles) from Irákleion (c. 137 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Chaniá (c. 54 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Rethymno (c. 29 900 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Néa Alikarnassós (c. 11 900 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Gázi (c. 9 700 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Soúda (c. 6 700 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Moíres (c. 6 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 12 km ESE of Kastrí, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 24.2103° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.7984° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km ESE of Kastrí, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-28 16:29:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-28 16:46:09 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 400 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 119 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.741 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000nn9g Id of event.
Event Code 6000nn9g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nn9g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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