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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Karpathos in Greece


Earthquake location 35.1839S, 27.8305WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 66 km ESE of Karpathos, Greece (41 miles) on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/02/20 / 2020-02-04 21:48:41 / February 4, 2020 @ 9:48 pm. Exact location, longitude 27.8305° East, latitude 35.1839° North, depth = 12.41 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12.41 km (8 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us70007ili. Event ids that are associated: us70007ili. The temblor was detected at 23:48:41 / 11:48 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 66 km ESE of Karpathos, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 27.8305° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.1839° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km ESE of Karpathos, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-02-04 21:48:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-04 22:11:34 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 298 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 0.656 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us70007ili Id of event.
Event Code 70007ili An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007ili, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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