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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Makry Gialos in Greece


Earthquake location 34.5474S, 26.1679WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Makry Gialos in Greece. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.67 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/11/16 / 2016-11-20 15:45:53 / November 20, 2016 @ 3:45 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 26.1679° East, 34.5474° North, depth 39.67 km. The temblor was picked up at 17:45:53 / 5:45 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10007dpj. Event ids that are associated: us10007dpj.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ágios Nikólaos, Siteía, Ierápetra (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 65 km (40 miles) from Ierápetra (c. 12 500 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Ágios Nikólaos (c. 10 800 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Siteía (c. 8 700 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 58 km SSE of Makry Gialos, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 26.1679° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.5474° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km SSE of Makry Gialos, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-20 15:45:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-14 22:16:45 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 284 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 1.284 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 165 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 us10007dpj Id of event.
Event Code 10007dpj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007dpj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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