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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Kokkári in Greece


Earthquake location 37.8482S, 26.8385WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Kokkári in Greece. Event id: us7000c8jq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000c8jq. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/10/20 / 2020-10-31 05:31:29 / October 31, 2020 @ 5:31 am. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:31:29 / 5:31 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.7 km (1 miles). Exact location of event, depth 1.7 km, 26.8385° East, 37.8482° North.

Nearby country/countries, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from İzmir (c. 2 500 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Karabağlar (c. 458 000 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Manisa (c. 244 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Aydın (c. 163 000 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Söke (c. 68 200 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Kuşadası (c. 63 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Menemen (c. 53 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kálymnos, Turgutreis, Manisa.

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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. 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: 8 km NNW of Kokkári, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 26.8385° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.8482° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km NNW of Kokkári, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-31 05:31:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-31 05:52:00 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 354 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 1.499 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000c8jq Id of event.
Event Code 7000c8jq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000c8jq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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