Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Kiriakion in Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Kiriakion in Greece. Unique identifier: us2000g43n. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000g43n. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 22.727 East, latitude 38.2994 North, depth = 110.99 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:58:59 / 2:58 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/07/18 / 2018-07-09 00:58:59 / July 9, 2018 @ 12:58 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 110.99 km (69 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Acharnés, Aigáleo, Zefyri (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Piraeus (c. 163 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Pátra (c. 163 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Peristéri (c. 140 000 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Acharnés (c. 99 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Níkaia (c. 89 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Ílion (c. 84 800 pop).

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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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: 7 km SW of Kiriakion, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	22.727° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.2994° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	110.99 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km SW of Kiriakion, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-07-09 00:58:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-22 22:10:14	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	0.782	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	67	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	us2000g43n	Id of event.
Event Code	2000g43n	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000g43n,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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