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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Lithakia in Greece

Posted by admin on March 12, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.1182S, 20.7387WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Lithakia in Greece. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 27.91 km (17 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:09:34 / 1:09 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 20.7387° East, 37.1182° North, depth 27.91 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/02/19 / 2019-02-27 00:09:34 / February 27, 2019 @ 12:09 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jcdi. Id of event: us1000jcdi. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gastoúni, Amaliáda, Zacháro (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 88 km (54 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Filiatrá (c. 7 000 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Gargaliánoi (c. 6 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Zacháro (c. 5 900 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days two hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 66 km S of Lithakia, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.7387° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.1182° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km S 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 2019-02-27 00:09:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-12 02:06:10 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 312 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 0.949 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us1000jcdi Id of event.
Event Code 1000jcdi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jcdi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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