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Light earthquake 4 mag, 58 km SSE of Lardos, Greece


Earthquake location 35.6006S, 28.2543WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Lardos in Greece. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/07/18 / 2018-07-08 19:43:31 / July 8, 2018 @ 7:43 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 28.2543° East, latitude 35.6006° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000fzw4. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000fzw4. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:43:31 / 9:43 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Faliraki, Afántou, Archángelos. Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Faliraki (c. 6 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Afántou (c. 5 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Archángelos (c. 5 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 thirteen 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.

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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. 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: 58 km SSE of Lardos, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 28.2543° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6006° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km SSE of Lardos, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-08 19:43:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-29 14:50:10 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 246 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 0.892 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us2000fzw4 Id of event.
Event Code 2000fzw4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000fzw4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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