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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Kos in Greece

Posted by admin on September 24, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.912S, 27.2871WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Kos in Greece. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.66 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us2000atyw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000atyw. The temblor was picked up at 18:57:16 / 6:57 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 27.2871 East, latitude 36.912 North, depth = 8.66 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/09/17 / 2017-09-24 16:57:16 / September 24, 2017 @ 4:57 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ula, Muğla, Koçarlı (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 94 km (58 miles) from Söke (c. 68 200 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Ródos (c. 56 100 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Muğla (c. 48 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Milas (c. 43 200 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Bodrum (c. 39 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Marmaris (c. 33 700 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Didim (c. 26 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light 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. 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: 2 km N of Kos, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 27.2871° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.912° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km N of Kos, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-24 16:57:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-24 18:40:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.6 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 372 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 0.967 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 us2000atyw Id of event.
Event Code 2000atyw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000atyw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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