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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Itháki in Greece


Earthquake location 38.5001S, 20.4821WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Itháki in Greece. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 40.921 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:22:49 / 8:22 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, longitude 20.4821 East, latitude 38.5001 North, depth = 40.921 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000np7t. Unique identifier: us6000np7t. Global time and date of event 02/09/24 / 2024-09-02 08:22:49 / September 2, 2024 @ 8:22 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 82 km (51 miles) from Agrínio (c. 46 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Árta (c. 19 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Préveza (c. 17 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Mesolóngi (c. 12 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Zákynthos, Árta, Mesolóngi (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 25 km NW of Itháki, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.4821° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.5001° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.921 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25 km NW of Itháki, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-02 08:22:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-02 09:58:49 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 259 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 1.54 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us6000np7t Id of event.
Event Code 6000np7t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000np7t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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