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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Fry in Greece


Earthquake location 35.4653S, 26.7772WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Fry in Greece. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000ac56. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ac56. Exact location, longitude 26.7772° East, latitude 35.4653° North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:56:02 / 12:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/06/20 / 2020-06-26 12:56:02 / June 26, 2020 @ 12:56 pm.

Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 67 km (42 miles) from Siteía (c. 8 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Siteía (min 5000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km WNW of Fry, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 26.7772° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.4653° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14 km WNW of Fry, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-26 12:56:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-26 13:37:34 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 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 0.323 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 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 us7000ac56 Id of event.
Event Code 7000ac56 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ac56, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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