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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Ionian Sea


Earthquake location 37.6375S, 20.6329WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes Ionian Sea kilometers (0 miles) from Ionian Sea on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 23:53:44 / 11:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/10/18 / 2018-10-25 23:53:44 / October 25, 2018 @ 11:53 pm. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 20.6329° East, 37.6375° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000i4mr. Unique identifier: us2000i4mr.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Zacháro, Pýrgos, Amaliáda. Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Zacháro (c. 5 900 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty, in the last 10 days eighty-two, in the past 30 days eighty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: Ionian Sea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.6329° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.6375° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Ionian Sea 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 23:53:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-03 05:08:39 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 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 2.173 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 132 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 us2000i4mr Id of event.
Event Code 2000i4mr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000i4mr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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