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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Palaiochora in Greece


Earthquake location 34.9037S, 23.7024WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Palaiochora in Greece. The temblor was detected at 12:23:26 / 12:23 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 06/12/19 / 2019-12-06 10:23:26 / December 6, 2019 @ 10:23 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us60006mxu. Ids that are associated to the event: us60006mxu. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 23.7024° East, latitude 34.9037° North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rethymno, Chaniá, Soúda (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Chaniá (c. 54 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Rethymno (c. 29 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Soúda (c. 6 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Mourniés (c. 5 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 36 km S of Palaiochora, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 23.7024° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.9037° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km S of Palaiochora, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-06 10:23:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-06 10:52:10 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 246 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 1.046 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 203 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 us60006mxu Id of event.
Event Code 60006mxu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006mxu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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