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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Lithakia in Greece


Earthquake location 37.4842S, 20.6394WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Lithakia in Greece. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:22:54 / 11:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 20.6394 East, latitude 37.4842 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000hhay. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hhay. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/10/18 / 2018-10-25 22:22:54 / October 25, 2018 @ 10:22 pm.

Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Filiatrá (c. 7 000 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Gargaliánoi (c. 6 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gargaliánoi, Kyparissía, Filiatrá (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 30 km SSW of Lithakia, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.6394° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4842° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km SSW of Lithakia, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-25 22:22:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-25 22:41:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 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 385 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 2.321 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us1000hhay Id of event.
Event Code 1000hhay An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hhay, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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