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Strong earthquake: M6.8 quake has struck near Lithakia in Greece

Posted by admin on October 25, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.4775S, 20.5599WA earthquake with magnitude 6.8 (ml/mb) was reported 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Lithakia in Greece on Thursday. Global time and date of event 25/10/18 / 2018-10-25 22:54:51 / October 25, 2018 @ 10:54 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 20.5599 East, latitude 37.4775 North, depth = 16.55 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.55 km (10 miles). The temblor was detected at 23:54:51 / 11:54 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hhb1. Id of event: us1000hhb1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 134 km (83 miles) from Pátra (c. 163 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 125 km (78 miles) from Mesolóngi (c. 12 700 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop), 128 km (80 miles) from Paralía (c. 7 300 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Filiatrá (c. 7 000 pop). Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Messíni, Pátra, Ovriá (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 35 km SW of Lithakia, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.5599° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4775° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km SW 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 22:54:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-25 23:13:24 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 711 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 2.31 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.3 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 mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000hhb1 Id of event.
Event Code 1000hhb1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hhb1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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