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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Thivai in Greece


Earthquake location 38.3475S, 23.3845WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Thivai in Greece. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/06/17 / 2017-06-25 13:54:42 / June 25, 2017 @ 1:54 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 23.3845 East, latitude 38.3475 North, depth = 10 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:54:42 / 3:54 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20009pmd. Event ids that are associated: us20009pmd. 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 10 km (6 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 50 km (31 miles) from Athens (c. 664 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Piraeus (c. 163 700 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Peristéri (c. 140 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Kallithéa (c. 100 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Acharnés (c. 99 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Níkaia (c. 89 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lávrio, Skiáthos, Ámfissa.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 6 km ENE of Thivai, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 23.3845° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.3475° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km ENE of Thivai, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-06-25 13:54:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-25 15:01:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 285 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 1.642 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us20009pmd Id of event.
Event Code 20009pmd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009pmd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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