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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Karpathos in Greece


Earthquake location 33.9815S, 28.2744WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 195 km SSE of Karpathos, Greece (121 miles). Exact location of event, depth 62.62 km, 28.2744° East, 33.9815° North. Event id: us10008vem. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008vem. The temblor was picked up at 03:03:02 / 3:03 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/05/17 / 2017-05-26 01:03:02 / May 26, 2017 @ 1:03 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 62.62 km (39 miles).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 195 km SSE of Karpathos, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 28.2744° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.9815° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 195km SSE of Karpathos, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-26 01:03:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-26 01:23:23 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 259 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 1.81 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 171 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 us10008vem Id of event.
Event Code 10008vem An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008vem, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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