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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Polykastron in Greece


Earthquake location 41.0276S, 22.7135WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Polykastron in Greece. The temblor was picked up at 11:15:15 / 11:15 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us100078r0. Event ids that are associated: us100078r0. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 22.7135° East, latitude 41.0276° North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/11/16 / 2016-11-16 09:15:15 / November 16, 2016 @ 9:15 am.

Epicenter of the event was 46 km (29 miles) from Thessaloníki (c. 354 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Kalamariá (c. 91 600 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Sérres (c. 58 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Kateríni (c. 53 300 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Shtip (c. 48 300 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Strumica (c. 45 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Macedonia (c. 2 062 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shtip, Gradsko, Kateríni.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 12 km ENE of Polykastron, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 22.7135° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.0276° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km ENE of Polykastron, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-16 09:15:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-16 09:46:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 272 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 1.037 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 30 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 us100078r0 Id of event.
Event Code 100078r0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100078r0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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