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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Lithakia in Greece


Earthquake location 37.3576S, 20.5843WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Lithakia in Greece on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude 20.5843° East, latitude 37.3576° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 14:56:45 / 2:56 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 26/10/18 / 2018-10-26 13:56:45 / October 26, 2018 @ 1:56 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us1000hhjs. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hhjs.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gargaliánoi, Kyparissía, Zacháro. Event epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Filiatrá (c. 7 000 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Gargaliánoi (c. 6 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-four, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 45 km SSW of Lithakia, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.5843° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.3576° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km 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 2018-10-26 13:56:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-26 15:02:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 355 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 2.431 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us1000hhjs Id of event.
Event Code 1000hhjs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hhjs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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