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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Filiatrá in Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Filiatrá in Greece. Id of earthquake: us7000ngz5. Event ids that are associated: us7000ngz5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.489 km (11 miles). The temblor was picked up at 12:18:14 / 12:18 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 17.489 km, 21.2822° East, 37.2959° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/09/24 / 2024-09-28 12:18:14 / September 28, 2024 @ 12:18 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Trípoli, , Kalamáta (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Kalamáta (c. 51 100 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Trípoli (c. 26 600 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Filiatrá (c. 7 000 pop). Nearby 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 31 km WNW of Filiatrá, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	21.2822° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.2959° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	17.489 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31 km WNW of Filiatrá, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-28 12:18:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-28 13:05:14	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	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	341	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	46	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.526	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.05 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	52	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	us7000ngz5	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ngz5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ngz5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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