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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 17 km SW of Methoni, Greece


Earthquake location 36.7025S, 21.5791WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Methoni in Greece. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/12/16 / 2016-12-02 11:46:04 / December 2, 2016 @ 11:46 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007e98. Id of event: us10007e98. Exact location, longitude 21.5791° East, latitude 36.7025° North, depth = 10 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:46:04 / 1:46 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 61 km (38 miles) from Kalamáta (c. 51 100 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Spárti (c. 16 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Filiatrá (c. 7 000 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Messíni (c. 6 800 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Gargaliánoi (c. 6 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Zacháro (c. 5 900 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Pýlos (c. 5 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Megalópoli, Zacháro, Spárti.

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 17 km SW of Methoni, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 21.5791° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7025° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km SW of Methoni, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-02 11:46:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-02 15:37:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 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 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 0.55 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 151 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 us10007e98 Id of event.
Event Code 10007e98 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007e98, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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