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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near southern Greece

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported southern Greece kilometers (0 miles) from southern Greece on Friday. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 21.4797° East, 36.8652° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 18:51:39 / 6:51 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000bu4l. Event ids that are associated: us2000bu4l. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/11/17 / 2017-11-24 18:51:39 / November 24, 2017 @ 6:51 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pýrgos, Spárti, Megalópoli (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 60 km (37 miles) from Kalamáta (c. 51 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Spárti (c. 16 200 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Filiatrá (c. 7 000 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Messíni (c. 6 800 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Gargaliánoi (c. 6 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Zacháro (c. 5 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: southern Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	21.4797° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.8652° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	southern Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-11-24 18:51:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-24 19:14:12	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	340	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	2.256	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	66	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	us2000bu4l	Id of event.
Event Code	2000bu4l	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000bu4l,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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