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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Mouzaki in Greece


Earthquake location 37.4922S, 20.3137WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Mouzaki in Greece. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/02/19 / 2019-02-25 17:43:19 / February 25, 2019 @ 5:43 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 18:43:19 / 6:43 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 20.3137° East, 37.4922° North, depth 10 km. Event id: us1000jbvx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jbvx.

The epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gastoúni, Argostólion, Zákynthos (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 51 km WSW of Mouzaki, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.3137° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4922° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km WSW of Mouzaki, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-25 17:43:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-19 19:52:06 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 284 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 1.322 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 165 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 us1000jbvx Id of event.
Event Code 1000jbvx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jbvx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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