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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Skiáthos in Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Skiáthos in Greece on Sunday. Unique identifier: us6000c95d. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000c95d. The temblor was detected at 08:07:17 / 8:07 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/10/20 / 2020-10-18 08:07:17 / October 18, 2020 @ 8:07 am. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 23.446° East, 39.187° North.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Schimatári, Lamía, Fársala (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Vólos (c. 84 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Chalkída (c. 54 600 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Lamía (c. 52 000 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Néa Ionía (c. 32 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Fársala (c. 10 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Néa Artáki (c. 9 200 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 4 km NW of Skiáthos, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	23.446° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.187° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4 km NW of Skiáthos, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-10-18 08:07:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-18 08:23:19	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	298	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	1.176	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.87 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	43	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	us6000c95d	Id of event.
Event Code	6000c95d	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000c95d,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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