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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Palaikastron in Greece


Earthquake location 35.1629S, 26.5959WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Palaikastron in Greece. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/07/17 / 2017-07-03 13:53:45 / July 3, 2017 @ 1:53 pm. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:53:45 / 3:53 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us100096da. Event ids that are associated: us100096da. Exact location of event, longitude 26.5959 East, latitude 35.1629 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ágios Nikólaos, Ierápetra, Siteía (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Ierápetra (c. 12 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Ágios Nikólaos (c. 10 800 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Siteía (c. 8 700 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 31 km E of Palaikastron, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 26.5959° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.1629° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km E of Palaikastron, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-03 13:53:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-05 13:41:37 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 0.6 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us100096da Id of event.
Event Code 100096da An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100096da, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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