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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Erithrai in Greece


Earthquake location 38.231S, 23.4042WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Erithrai in Greece. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hwph. Unique identifier: us1000hwph. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.42 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 18:06:13 / 6:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 8.42 km, 23.4042° East, 38.231° North. Global time and date of event 26/11/18 / 2018-11-26 16:06:13 / November 26, 2018 @ 4:06 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kárystos, Náfplio, Árgos (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 39 km (24 miles) from Athens (c. 664 000 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Piraeus (c. 163 700 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Peristéri (c. 140 000 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Kallithéa (c. 100 600 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Acharnés (c. 99 300 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Níkaia (c. 89 400 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 7 km ENE of Erithrai, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 23.4042° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.231° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km ENE of Erithrai, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-26 16:06:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-26 16:42:46 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 1.574 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 us1000hwph Id of event.
Event Code 1000hwph An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hwph, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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