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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Grizáno in Greece


Earthquake location 39.7364S, 22.1296WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Grizáno in Greece. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 09:36:16 / 9:36 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000dfe8. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000dfe8. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 22.1296° East, 39.7364° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/03/21 / 2021-03-04 09:36:16 / March 4, 2021 @ 9:36 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 27 km (17 miles) from Lárisa (c. 128 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Vólos (c. 84 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Kateríni (c. 53 300 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Lamía (c. 52 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Tríkala (c. 49 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Véroia (c. 44 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Kozáni (c. 36 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lamía, Karpenísi, .

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km NNE of Grizáno, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 22.1296° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.7364° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13 km NNE of Grizáno, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-03-04 09:36:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-03-04 10:06:42 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 326 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 0.459 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us7000dfe8 Id of event.
Event Code 7000dfe8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000dfe8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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