A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Nidri in Greece on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude 20.5054 East, latitude 38.704 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/11/15 / 2015-11-20 09:33:15 / November 20, 2015 @ 9:33 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us10003zsr. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003zsr. The temblor was picked up at 10:33:15 / 10:33 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Igoumenítsa, Mesolóngi, Agrínio (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 79 km (49 miles) from Agrínio (c. 46 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Árta (c. 19 500 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Préveza (c. 17 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Mesolóngi (c. 12 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Igoumenítsa (c. 9 500 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Lefkáda (c. 8 700 pop). Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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: 17 km W of Nidri, Greece.
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