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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Lithakia in Greece


Earthquake location 37.3507S, 20.5669WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Lithakia in Greece on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000hqrp. Event ids that are associated: us1000hqrp. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/11/18 / 2018-11-12 06:50:28 / November 12, 2018 @ 6:50 am. Exact location of event, longitude 20.5669 East, latitude 37.3507 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 07:50:28 / 7:50 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gargaliánoi, Kyparissía, Zacháro. Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Filiatrá (c. 7 000 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Gargaliánoi (c. 6 300 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. 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: 46 km SSW of Lithakia, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.5669° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.3507° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km 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 2018-11-12 06:50:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-12 07:30:19 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 354 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 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000hqrp Id of event.
Event Code 1000hqrp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hqrp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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