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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Itea in Greece

Posted by admin on March 30, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.3815S, 22.3939WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Itea in Greece. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us2000k7ki. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000k7ki. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/03/19 / 2019-03-30 10:46:19 / March 30, 2019 @ 10:46 am. The temblor was reported at 12:46:19 / 12:46 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 22.3939 East, latitude 38.3815 North, depth = 10 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Elefsína, Salamína, Néa Ankhíalos. Event epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Pátra (c. 163 400 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Chalkída (c. 54 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Lamía (c. 52 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Agrínio (c. 46 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Kórinthos (c. 30 200 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Trípoli (c. 26 600 pop), 107 km (66 miles) from Salamína (c. 25 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 6 km SSW of Itea, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 22.3939° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.3815° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SSW of Itea, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-30 10:46:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-30 11:03:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 418 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 1.256 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 21 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000k7ki Id of event.
Event Code 2000k7ki An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000k7ki, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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