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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Morfovoúni in Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Morfovoúni in Greece on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude 21.7136 East, latitude 39.203 North, depth = 8.712 km. Global time and date of event 09/10/24 / 2024-10-09 21:20:48 / October 9, 2024 @ 9:20 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nxn5. Id of event: us6000nxn5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 21:20:48 / 9:20 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.712 km (5 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ioánnina, Préveza, Anatolí (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 78 km (48 miles) from Lárisa (c. 128 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Ioánnina (c. 64 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Lamía (c. 52 000 pop), 39 km (25 miles) from Tríkala (c. 49 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Agrínio (c. 46 900 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Kardítsa (c. 32 800 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 16 km S of Morfovoúni, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	21.7136° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.203° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.712 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16 km S of Morfovoúni, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-10-09 21:20:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-09 21:33:49	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	246	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	30	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.517	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.13 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	49	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000nxn5	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nxn5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nxn5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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