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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Crete, Greece


Earthquake location 34.4497S, 24.0072WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, Crete, Greece kilometers (0 miles) from Crete, Greece. Event id: us2000a30v. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000a30v. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:29:11 / 9:29 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 24.0072° East, latitude 34.4497° North, depth = 16.62 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 16.62 km (10 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/07/17 / 2017-07-31 21:29:11 / July 31, 2017 @ 9:29 pm.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 104 km (64 miles) from Moíres (c. 6 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Moíres. Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: Crete, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 24.0072° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.4497° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Crete, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-31 21:29:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-31 21:45:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 432 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 1.107 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 us2000a30v Id of event.
Event Code 2000a30v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a30v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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