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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Methoni in Greece


Earthquake location 36.1441S, 21.3763WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Methoni in Greece. Event id: us20002vjj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002vjj. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 21.3763 East, latitude 36.1441 North, depth = 42.56 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 42.56 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/15 / 2015-07-06 21:34:05 / July 6, 2015 @ 9:34 pm. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:34:05 / 10:34 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Pýlos (c. 5 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pýlos.

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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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: 80 km SSW of Methoni, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 21.3763° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1441° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80km SSW of Methoni, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-06 21:34:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-06 21:59:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.122 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us20002vjj Id of event.
Event Code 20002vjj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002vjj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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