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Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, 8 km NNE of Paramythia, Greece


Earthquake location 39.546S, 20.5468WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Paramythia in Greece. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/02/18 / 2018-02-12 05:58:18 / February 12, 2018 @ 5:58 am. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:58:18 / 7:58 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 20.5468 East, latitude 39.546 North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d0tm. Id of event: us2000d0tm.

Event epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Ioánnina (c. 64 000 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Kérkyra (c. 27 000 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Gjirokastër (c. 23 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Árta (c. 19 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Préveza (c. 17 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Sarandë (c. 15 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lefkáda, Përmet, Gjirokastër (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 8 km NNE of Paramythia, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.5468° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.546° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km NNE of Paramythia, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-12 05:58:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-12 13:31:24 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 222 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 0.603 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000d0tm Id of event.
Event Code 2000d0tm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d0tm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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