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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Rodotopion in Greece

Posted by admin on October 15, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.8443S, 20.6259WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Rodotopion in Greece. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20007eec. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007eec. The temblor was picked up at 23:14:49 / 11:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 20.6259° East, latitude 39.8443° North, depth = 20.98 km. Global time and date of event 15/10/16 / 2016-10-15 20:14:49 / October 15, 2016 @ 8:14 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 20.98 km (13 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tríkala, Préveza, Poliçan (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 28 km (17 miles) from Ioánnina (c. 64 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Korçë (c. 58 300 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Tríkala (c. 49 800 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Kérkyra (c. 27 000 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Gjirokastër (c. 23 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Árta (c. 19 500 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Préveza (c. 17 300 pop).

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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 17 km NNW of Rodotopion, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.6259° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.8443° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km NNW of Rodotopion, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-15 20:14:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-15 20:40:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 17 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5 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 441 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 0.652 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20007eec Id of event.
Event Code 20007eec An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007eec, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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