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


Earthquake location 34.6591S, 25.3441WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Pirgos in Greece. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:28:34 / 11:28 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 25.3441° East, latitude 34.6591° North, depth = 44 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 44 km (27 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/10/18 / 2018-10-06 21:28:34 / October 6, 2018 @ 9:28 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000h88y. Id of event: us1000h88y.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gázi, Néa Alikarnassós, Irákleion. The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Irákleion (c. 137 200 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Ierápetra (c. 12 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Néa Alikarnassós (c. 11 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Ágios Nikólaos (c. 10 800 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Gázi (c. 9 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Goúvai (c. 7 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 41 km SSE of Pirgos, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 25.3441° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.6591° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km SSE of Pirgos, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-06 21:28:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-06 22:36:18 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 0.729 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us1000h88y Id of event.
Event Code 1000h88y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h88y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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