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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Molos in Greece


Earthquake location 38.75S, 22.5514WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Molos in Greece. The temblor was picked up at 22:49:49 / 10:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/09/19 / 2019-09-01 20:49:49 / September 1, 2019 @ 8:49 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us70005b1c. Unique identifier: us70005b1c. Exact location of event, depth 44.18 km, 22.5514° East, 38.75° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 44.18 km (27 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 91 km (56 miles) from Pátra (c. 163 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Vólos (c. 84 400 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Lamía (c. 52 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Kardítsa (c. 32 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Néa Ionía (c. 32 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Thívai (c. 22 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dhrosiá, Pátra, Palamás (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 11 km SW of Molos, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 22.5514° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.75° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SW of Molos, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-01 20:49:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-01 21:03:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 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 259 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 1.644 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us70005b1c Id of event.
Event Code 70005b1c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005b1c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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