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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 6 km S of Paramythia, Greece


Earthquake location 39.4095S, 20.5159WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Paramythia in Greece. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/02/20 / 2020-02-18 13:24:46 / February 18, 2020 @ 1:24 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us70007vxa. Unique identifier: us70007vxa. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 15:24:46 / 3:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 20.5159° East, 39.4095° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Ioánnina (c. 64 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Kérkyra (c. 27 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Gjirokastër (c. 23 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Árta (c. 19 500 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Préveza (c. 17 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Sarandë (c. 15 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Albania (c. 2 987 000 pop), Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Përmet, Gjirokastër, Sarandë.

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km S of Paramythia, Greece. This information 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 20.5159° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.4095° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km S of Paramythia, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-02-18 13:24:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-24 20:49:25 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 0.633 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 us70007vxa Id of event.
Event Code 70007vxa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007vxa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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