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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Eresos in Greece


Earthquake location 39.4443S, 25.6536WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Eresos in Greece on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us70005t9m. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005t9m. Exact location, longitude 25.6536° East, latitude 39.4443° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 01:55:59 / 1:55 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 10/10/19 / 2019-10-10 23:55:59 / October 10, 2019 @ 11:55 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ayvalık, Gökçeada, Mytilíni (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Ayvalık (c. 35 200 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Mytilíni (c. 28 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Ezine (c. 15 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Gökçeada (c. 7 800 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Ayvacık (c. 6 900 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Mýrina (c. 5 400 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 39 km NW of Eresos, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 25.6536° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.4443° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km NW of Eresos, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-10 23:55:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-11 00:10:20 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 271 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 1.47 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 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 us70005t9m Id of event.
Event Code 70005t9m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005t9m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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