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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 42 km SW of Emponas, Greece


Earthquake location 35.9652S, 27.5154WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Emponas in Greece. Exact location of earthquake, 27.5154° East, 35.9652° North, depth 13.6 km. The temblor was detected at 13:30:33 / 1:30 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/05/17 / 2017-05-17 11:30:33 / May 17, 2017 @ 11:30 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 13.6 km (8 miles). Event id: us10008t03. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008t03.

Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (51 miles) from Ródos (c. 56 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Triánta (c. 11 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Datça (c. 10 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Faliraki (c. 6 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Afántou (c. 5 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Archángelos (c. 5 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Datça, Ródos, Triánta (min 5000 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 42 km SW of Emponas, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 27.5154° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9652° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km SW of Emponas, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-17 11:30:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-17 11:46:54 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 2.9 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 370 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 0.507 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10008t03 Id of event.
Event Code 10008t03 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008t03, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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