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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Mandráki in Greece


Earthquake location 36.4564S, 26.8211WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Mandráki in Greece. The epicenter was at a depth of 125.75 km (78 miles). Exact location, longitude 26.8211° East, latitude 36.4564° North, depth = 125.75 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000d6h5. Unique identifier: us6000d6h5. The temblor was reported at 22:55:28 / 10:55 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/12/20 / 2020-12-28 22:55:28 / December 28, 2020 @ 10:55 pm.

Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Bodrum (c. 39 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Kos (c. 19 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Turgutreis (c. 16 500 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Datça (c. 10 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Kálymnos (c. 10 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bodrum, Datça, Turgutreis (min 5000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 32 km WSW of Mandráki, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 26.8211° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4564° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 125.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32 km WSW of Mandráki, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-28 22:55:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-08 01:11:44 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 259 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 0.948 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 us6000d6h5 Id of event.
Event Code 6000d6h5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d6h5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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