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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Palekastro in Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Palekastro in Greece on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 48.491 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/12/24 / 2024-12-29 08:02:09 / December 29, 2024 @ 8:02 am. The temblor was reported at 08:02:09 / 8:02 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pg94. Id of event: us6000pg94. Exact location of event, depth 48.491 km, 26.3404° East, 35.1518° North.

Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 57 km (35 miles) from Ierápetra (c. 12 500 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Ágios Nikólaos (c. 10 800 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Siteía (c. 8 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Goúvai (c. 7 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Goúvai, Ágios Nikólaos, Ierápetra.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 9 km ESE of Palekastro, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	26.3404° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.1518° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	48.491 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km ESE of Palekastro, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-12-29 08:02:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-29 16:04:59	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	312	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	93	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.195	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.62 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	61	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	us6000pg94	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pg94	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pg94,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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