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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 85 km SSW of Ierapetra, Greece

Posted by admin on May 18, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 34.261S, 25.5091WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Ierapetra in Greece. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:10:16 / 2:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/05/20 / 2020-05-18 12:10:16 / May 18, 2020 @ 12:10 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us70009jmq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009jmq. Exact location of event, longitude 25.5091 East, latitude 34.261 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ierápetra. Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Event epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Ierápetra (c. 12 500 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 85 km SSW of Ierapetra, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 25.5091° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.261° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85km SSW of Ierapetra, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-18 12:10:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-18 13:03:24 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 1.144 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 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 us70009jmq Id of event.
Event Code 70009jmq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009jmq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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