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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Moíres in Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Moíres in Greece. The temblor was picked up at 08:33:18 / 8:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 24.8803 East, latitude 34.7421 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/10/24 / 2024-10-07 08:33:18 / October 7, 2024 @ 8:33 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nx18. Unique identifier: us6000nx18.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ágios Nikólaos, Ierápetra, Rethymno. Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Irákleion (c. 137 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Rethymno (c. 29 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Ierápetra (c. 12 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Néa Alikarnassós (c. 11 900 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Ágios Nikólaos (c. 10 800 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Gázi (c. 9 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 34 km S of Moíres, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	24.8803° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.7421° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	34 km S 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	2024-10-07 08:33:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-08 07:52:42	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	284	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	51	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.545	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.47 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	229	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	us6000nx18	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nx18	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nx18,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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