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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Makry Gialos in Greece


Earthquake location 34.8426S, 26.2841WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Makry Gialos in Greece on Thursday. Exact location, longitude 26.2841° East, latitude 34.8426° North, depth = 7.86 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.86 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/09/17 / 2017-09-21 20:17:25 / September 21, 2017 @ 8:17 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:17:25 / 10:17 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000awq2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000awq2.

The epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Ierápetra (c. 12 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Ágios Nikólaos (c. 10 800 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Siteía (c. 8 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ágios Nikólaos, Ierápetra, Siteía (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-three 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 37 km SE of Makry Gialos, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 26.2841° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.8426° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km SE of Makry Gialos, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-21 20:17:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-19 15:56:24 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 1.005 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us2000awq2 Id of event.
Event Code 2000awq2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000awq2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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