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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Zakharo in Greece

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Zakharo in Greece on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.08 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 21.6354° East, 37.4336° North, depth 28.08 km. Event id: us1000htan. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000htan. The temblor was picked up at 22:33:19 / 10:33 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 17/11/18 / 2018-11-17 20:33:19 / November 17, 2018 @ 8:33 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Pátra (c. 163 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Kalamáta (c. 51 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Trípoli (c. 26 600 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Spárti (c. 16 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pátra, Paralía, Ovriá. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-three 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km SSW of Zakharo, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	21.6354° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.4336° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	28.08 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km SSW of Zakharo, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-11-17 20:33:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-18 01:29:01	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	120	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	298	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	0.343	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	84	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	us1000htan	Id of event.
Event Code	1000htan	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000htan,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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