Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Kefalos in Greece

A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Kefalos in Greece. The temblor was detected at 14:08:17 / 2:08 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us70009dpa. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009dpa. Exact location of event, longitude 26.9077 East, latitude 36.466 North, depth = 141.14 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/05/20 / 2020-05-10 12:08:17 / May 10, 2020 @ 12:08 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 141.14 km (88 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bodrum, Datça, Turgutreis. Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 79 km (49 miles) from Bodrum (c. 39 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Kos (c. 19 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Turgutreis (c. 16 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Datça (c. 10 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Kálymnos (c. 10 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 31 km S of Kefalos, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	26.9077° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.466° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	141.14 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km S of Kefalos, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-05-10 12:08:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-26 10:34:48	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	246	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	0.939	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	63	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	us70009dpa	Id of event.
Event Code	70009dpa	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70009dpa,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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