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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Kastrí in Greece


Earthquake location 34.779S, 23.9989WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Kastrí in Greece. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/01/21 / 2021-01-26 01:11:28 / January 26, 2021 @ 1:11 am. Unique identifier: us6000de7b. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000de7b. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:11:28 / 1:11 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 23.9989° East, 34.779° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Moíres, Chaniá, Soúda. The epicenter was 81 km (51 miles) from Chaniá (c. 54 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Rethymno (c. 29 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Soúda (c. 6 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Moíres (c. 6 500 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Mourniés (c. 5 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 10 km SW of Kastrí, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 23.9989° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.779° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10 km SW of Kastrí, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-26 01:11:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-03 23:30:46 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 0.89 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us6000de7b Id of event.
Event Code 6000de7b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000de7b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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