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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Ierapetra in Greece


Earthquake location 34.1941S, 25.629WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Ierapetra in Greece. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009k9e. Id of event: us70009k9e. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 25.629° East, 34.1941° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 02:35:20 / 2:35 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 19/05/20 / 2020-05-19 00:35:20 / May 19, 2020 @ 12:35 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Ierápetra (c. 12 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ierápetra (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days fifty-nine 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.

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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. 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: 91 km S of Ierapetra, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 25.629° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.1941° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km S 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 2020-05-19 00:35:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-19 00:58:50 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 1.249 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us70009k9e Id of event.
Event Code 70009k9e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009k9e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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