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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Eresós in Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Eresós in Greece on Sunday. The temblor was reported at 12:08:40 / 12:08 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000nww7. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000nww7. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 25.8344 East, latitude 39.0052 North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/10/24 / 2024-10-06 12:08:40 / October 6, 2024 @ 12:08 pm.

Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ezine, Dikili, Foça. Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Ayvalık (c. 35 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Mytilíni (c. 28 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Chíos (c. 24 000 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Çeşme (c. 21 300 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Ezine (c. 15 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Foça (c. 15 200 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Dikili (c. 14 100 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 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: 20 km SSW of Eresós, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	25.8344° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.0052° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20 km SSW of Eresós, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-10-06 12:08:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-07 04:04:58	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	326	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	26	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.837	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.91 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	48	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	us6000nww7	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nww7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nww7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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