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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Lithakia in Greece


Earthquake location 37.7271S, 20.8608WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Lithakia in Greece. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hvvr. Unique identifier: us1000hvvr. Exact location of event, longitude 20.8608 East, latitude 37.7271 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/11/18 / 2018-11-18 04:47:03 / November 18, 2018 @ 4:47 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:47:03 / 6:47 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Filiatrá, Ovriá, Paralía (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Event epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Mesolóngi (c. 12 700 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 2 km ENE of Lithakia, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.8608° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.7271° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km ENE 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 2018-11-18 04:47:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-29 04:42:39 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 259 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 1.008 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 94 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 us1000hvvr Id of event.
Event Code 1000hvvr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hvvr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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