Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Tympakion in Greece

A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Tympakion in Greece on Saturday. Id of earthquake: us1000gc2i. Event ids that are associated: us1000gc2i. Exact location of event, longitude 24.4722 East, latitude 34.351 North, depth = 41.9 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 41.9 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/08/18 / 2018-08-18 02:21:01 / August 18, 2018 @ 2:21 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:21:01 / 4:21 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 86 km (53 miles) from Moíres (c. 6 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Moíres (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 83 km SSW of Tympakion, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	24.4722° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.351° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	41.9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	83km SSW of Tympakion, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-08-18 02:21:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-09-02 00:53:26	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	0.996	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.07 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	115	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	us1000gc2i	Id of event.
Event Code	1000gc2i	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000gc2i,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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