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Light earthquake 4 mag, 4 km NNE of Kokkári, Greece


Earthquake location 37.8209S, 26.9127WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Kokkári in Greece on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000c8s0. Unique identifier: us7000c8s0. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 26.9127 East, latitude 37.8209 North, depth = 15.46 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 15.46 km (10 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/10/20 / 2020-10-31 22:05:43 / October 31, 2020 @ 10:05 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:05:43 / 10:05 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Menemen, Aydın, Kemalpaşa (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from İzmir (c. 2 500 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Karabağlar (c. 458 000 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Aydın (c. 163 000 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Söke (c. 68 200 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Kuşadası (c. 63 200 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Menemen (c. 53 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 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 five, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fourteen 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: 4 km NNE of Kokkári, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 26.9127° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.8209° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4 km NNE 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 22:05:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-31 22:28:33 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 246 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 1.459 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us7000c8s0 Id of event.
Event Code 7000c8s0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000c8s0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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