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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Samos in Greece


Earthquake location 37.8304S, 27.0652WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Samos in Greece on Sunday. Exact location of event, longitude 27.0652 East, latitude 37.8304 North, depth = 10 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:05:13 / 7:05 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000c8wp. Event ids that are associated: us7000c8wp. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 01/11/20 / 2020-11-01 07:05:13 / November 1, 2020 @ 7:05 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from İzmir (c. 2 500 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Karabağlar (c. 458 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Manisa (c. 244 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Aydın (c. 163 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Turgutlu (c. 103 300 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Söke (c. 68 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Manisa, Turgutlu, Turgutreis. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 11 km NE of Samos, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 27.0652° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.8304° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11 km NE of Samos, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-11-01 07:05:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-01 07:35:39 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 1.348 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us7000c8wp Id of event.
Event Code 7000c8wp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000c8wp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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