Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Kefalos in Greece

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Kefalos in Greece. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 137.29 km (85 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us10004dzq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004dzq. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/01/16 / 2016-01-04 02:58:23 / January 4, 2016 @ 2:58 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 26.9641° East, latitude 36.4613° North, depth = 137.29 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:58:23 / 4:58 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bodrum, Datça, Turgutreis (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Bodrum (c. 39 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Kos (c. 19 200 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Turgutreis (c. 16 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Datça (c. 10 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Kálymnos (c. 10 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 31 km S of Kefalos, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	26.9641° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4613° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	137.29 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km S of Kefalos, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-01-04 02:58:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-01-15 00:58:05	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	120	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	298	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	1.217	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.32 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	103	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	us10004dzq	Id of event.
Event Code	10004dzq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004dzq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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