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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 35 km S of Skyros, Greece


Earthquake location 38.5861S, 24.5539WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Skyros in Greece. The temblor was detected at 15:37:33 / 3:37 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.57 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us20006u7n. Event ids that are associated: us20006u7n. Exact location of earthquake, 24.5539° East, 38.5861° North, depth 11.57 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/08/16 / 2016-08-26 13:37:33 / August 26, 2016 @ 1:37 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Acharnés (c. 99 300 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Khalándrion (c. 74 200 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Maroúsi (c. 72 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Zográfos (c. 71 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Néa Ionía (c. 67 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Agía Paraskeví (c. 59 700 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Galátsi (c. 59 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zográfos, Ágioi Anárgyroi, Markópoulo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 35 km S of Skyros, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 24.5539° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.5861° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km S of Skyros, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-26 13:37:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-12 06:49:12 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 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 2.202 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 us20006u7n Id of event.
Event Code 20006u7n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006u7n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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