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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Methóni in Greece


Earthquake location 35.0271S, 20.1936WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 241 km SW of Methóni, Greece (150 miles) on Monday. The temblor was detected at 22:27:03 / 10:27 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000a3zv. Id of event: us6000a3zv. Exact location, longitude 20.1936° East, latitude 35.0271° North, depth = 12.17 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 01/06/20 / 2020-06-01 22:27:03 / June 1, 2020 @ 10:27 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.17 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 241 km SW of Methóni, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.1936° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.0271° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 241 km SW of Methóni, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-01 22:27:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-01 22:53:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 2.564 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 195 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 us6000a3zv Id of event.
Event Code 6000a3zv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000a3zv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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