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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Methoni in Greece


Earthquake location 36.7903S, 21.4021WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Methoni in Greece. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us70006dp7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006dp7. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:04:03 / 12:04 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 19/11/19 / 2019-11-19 23:04:03 / November 19, 2019 @ 11:04 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 21.4021 East, latitude 36.7903 North, depth = 35.8 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35.8 km (22 miles).

Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Kalamáta (c. 51 100 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Filiatrá (c. 7 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Messíni (c. 6 800 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Gargaliánoi (c. 6 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Zacháro (c. 5 900 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Pýlos (c. 5 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zacháro, Kalamáta, Messíni (min 5000 pop). Nearby 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. 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 sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 27 km W of Methoni, 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 21.4021° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7903° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km W of Methoni, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-19 23:04:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-02 23:28:22 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 0.57 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 162 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 us70006dp7 Id of event.
Event Code 70006dp7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006dp7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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