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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Mouzaki in Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Mouzaki in Greece on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 20.4872 East, latitude 37.6738 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/11/18 / 2018-11-11 23:38:35 / November 11, 2018 @ 11:38 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000hqnt. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hqnt. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:38:35 / 1:38 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Gastoúni (c. 8 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pýrgos, Amaliáda, Gastoúni. Nearby 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 29 km WSW of Mouzaki, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	20.4872° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.6738° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	29km WSW of Mouzaki, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-11-11 23:38:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-11 23:52:20	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	120	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	354	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	1.98	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	103	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	us1000hqnt	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hqnt	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hqnt,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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