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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near Palaiochora in Greece

Posted by admin on March 7, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.1382S, 23.5229WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) strikes 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Palaiochora in Greece on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/03/16 / 2016-03-06 23:18:15 / March 6, 2016 @ 11:18 pm. The temblor was detected at 01:18:15 / 1:18 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 23.5229° East, latitude 35.1382° North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us10004vs7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004vs7.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Soúda, Chaniá, Mourniés (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 62 km (38 miles) from Chaniá (c. 54 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Soúda (c. 6 700 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Mourniés (c. 5 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 18 km SW of Palaiochora, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 23.5229° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.1382° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km SW of Palaiochora, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-06 23:18:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-06 23:39:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 234 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 1.129 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10004vs7 Id of event.
Event Code 10004vs7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004vs7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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