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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Palaiochora in Greece


Earthquake location 34.785S, 23.9271WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Palaiochora in Greece. Exact location of event, longitude 23.9271 East, latitude 34.785 North, depth = 33.37 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 33.37 km (21 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/11/17 / 2017-11-15 15:49:52 / November 15, 2017 @ 3:49 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000btz8. Unique identifier: us2000btz8. The temblor was reported at 17:49:52 / 5:49 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Moíres, Rethymno, Chaniá (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 81 km (51 miles) from Chaniá (c. 54 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Rethymno (c. 29 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Soúda (c. 6 700 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Moíres (c. 6 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Mourniés (c. 5 300 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 two and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 54 km SSE of Palaiochora, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 23.9271° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.785° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km SSE of Palaiochora, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-15 15:49:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-30 00:54:20 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 271 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 0.936 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 217 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 us2000btz8 Id of event.
Event Code 2000btz8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000btz8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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