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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Ayios Nikolaos in Greece

Posted by admin on September 13, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.7354S, 21.0686WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Ayios Nikolaos in Greece. Unique identifier: us10006p7s. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006p7s. The temblor was reported at 09:14:51 / 9:14 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/09/16 / 2016-09-13 06:14:51 / September 13, 2016 @ 6:14 am. Exact location of earthquake, 21.0686° East, 37.7354° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gargaliánoi, Río, Pátra (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Event epicenter was 81 km (51 miles) from Pátra (c. 163 400 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Mesolóngi (c. 12 700 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 13 km SSW of Ayios Nikolaos, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 21.0686° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.7354° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SSW of Ayios Nikolaos, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-13 06:14:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-13 09:10:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 326 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 0.879 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us10006p7s Id of event.
Event Code 10006p7s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006p7s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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