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Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, 8 km SSW of Lapithos, Cyprus


Earthquake location 35.2693S, 33.1343WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Lapithos in Cyprus. Exact location of event, longitude 33.1343 East, latitude 35.2693 North, depth = 53.15 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 53.15 km (33 miles). The temblor was detected at 02:16:17 / 2:16 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000i0u6. Unique identifier: us1000i0u6. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/12/18 / 2018-12-03 00:16:17 / December 3, 2018 @ 12:16 am.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 24 km (15 miles) from Nicosia (c. 200 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Limassol (c. 154 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Larnaca (c. 72 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Famagusta (c. 42 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Paphos (c. 36 000 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Kyrenia (c. 26 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Paphos, Paralímni, Derýneia. Country/countries that might be effected, Cyprus (c. 1 103 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 8 km SSW of Lapithos, Cyprus.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 33.1343° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.2693° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SSW of Lapithos, Cyprus Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-03 00:16:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-03 01:26:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.8 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 223 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 0.347 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us1000i0u6 Id of event.
Event Code 1000i0u6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000i0u6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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