A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Kefalos in Greece on Sunday. 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: us60003t4b. Unique identifier: us60003t4b. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/05/19 / 2019-05-19 14:47:14 / May 19, 2019 @ 2:47 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 26.8031 East, latitude 36.7088 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 16:47:14 / 4:47 pm (local time epicenter).
Event epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Bodrum (c. 39 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Didim (c. 26 000 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Kos (c. 19 200 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Turgutreis (c. 16 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Datça (c. 10 100 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Kálymnos (c. 10 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Didim, Datça, Bodrum. Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 14 km WSW of Kefalos, Greece.
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