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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 15 km SSW of Plomarion, Greece

Posted by admin on September 10, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.8447S, 26.309WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Plomarion in Greece. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 10/09/15 / 2015-09-10 08:12:46 / September 10, 2015 @ 8:12 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us20003hpu. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003hpu. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.55 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 11:12:46 / 11:12 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 26.309 East, latitude 38.8447 North, depth = 13.55 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Menderes, Kınık, Burhaniye. Epicenter of the event was 87 km (54 miles) from İzmir (c. 2 500 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Karabağlar (c. 458 000 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Bergama (c. 57 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Menemen (c. 53 500 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Urla (c. 45 200 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Aliağa (c. 44 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Burhaniye (c. 38 100 pop).

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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 15 km SSW of Plomarion, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 26.309° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.8447° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km SSW of Plomarion, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-10 08:12:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-10 08:33:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 328 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 1.455 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 us20003hpu Id of event.
Event Code 20003hpu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003hpu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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