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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Makry Gialos in Greece


Earthquake location 34.944S, 26.2056WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Makry Gialos in Greece on Wednesday. The temblor was reported at 08:05:46 / 8:05 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 26.2056° East, latitude 34.944° North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/04/20 / 2020-04-22 06:05:46 / April 22, 2020 @ 6:05 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us700091j3. Ids that are associated to the event: us700091j3.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Goúvai, Ágios Nikólaos, Ierápetra. The epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Ierápetra (c. 12 500 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Ágios Nikólaos (c. 10 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Siteía (c. 8 700 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Goúvai (c. 7 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 25 km ESE of Makry Gialos, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 26.2056° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.944° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km ESE of Makry Gialos, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-22 06:05:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-22 06:31:02 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 0.986 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us700091j3 Id of event.
Event Code 700091j3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700091j3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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