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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Ayia Marina in Greece


Earthquake location 37.6106S, 23.6324WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Ayia Marina in Greece. Global time and date of event 29/04/20 / 2020-04-29 10:28:18 / April 29, 2020 @ 10:28 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 12:28:18 / 12:28 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us70009afw. Event ids that are associated: us70009afw. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 23.6324° East, 37.6106° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vasilikón, Kiáto, Thívai. Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Athens (c. 664 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Piraeus (c. 163 700 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Peristéri (c. 140 000 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Kallithéa (c. 100 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Acharnés (c. 99 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Níkaia (c. 89 400 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 17 km SSE of Ayia Marina, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 23.6324° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.6106° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km SSE of Ayia Marina, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-29 10:28:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-28 12:50:55 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 1.426 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us70009afw Id of event.
Event Code 70009afw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009afw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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