Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Lithakia in Greece

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Lithakia in Greece on Friday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/10/18 / 2018-10-26 19:27:35 / October 26, 2018 @ 7:27 pm. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:27:35 / 8:27 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us1000hhpg. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hhpg. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 20.6038° East, latitude 37.2719° North, depth = 10 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Zacháro, Kyparissía, Gargaliánoi. Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (54 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Filiatrá (c. 7 000 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Gargaliánoi (c. 6 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Zacháro (c. 5 900 pop). Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-seven, in the last 10 days thirty-eight, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 53 km SSW of Lithakia, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	20.6038° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.2719° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	53km 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 19:27:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-27 16:46:41	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	60	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		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	312	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	2.518	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	76	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	us1000hhpg	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hhpg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hhpg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.5 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

20.6038° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

37.2719° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

53km 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 19:27:35

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2018-10-27 16:46:41

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

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

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

312

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

2.518

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

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us1000hhpg

Id of event.

Event Code

1000hhpg

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us1000hhpg,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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