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


Earthquake location 34.7421S, 24.8803WA 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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More information

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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