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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Palaiochora in Greece


Earthquake location 34.2723S, 23.5834WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 107 km S of Palaiochora, Greece (66 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34.69 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us70008iz0. Ids that are associated to the event: us70008iz0. Exact location of earthquake, 23.5834° East, 34.2723° North, depth 34.69 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/03/20 / 2020-03-25 21:38:14 / March 25, 2020 @ 9:38 pm. The temblor was reported at 23:38:14 / 11:38 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each 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. 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: 107 km S of Palaiochora, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 23.5834° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.2723° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 107km 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 2020-03-25 21:38:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-09 22:34:39 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 259 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 1.477 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 211 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 us70008iz0 Id of event.
Event Code 70008iz0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008iz0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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