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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Palekastro in Greece


Earthquake location 35.5691S, 26.238WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Palekastro in Greece. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/10/20 / 2020-10-12 02:38:52 / October 12, 2020 @ 2:38 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:38:52 / 2:38 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000c7n0. Event ids that are associated: us6000c7n0. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 26.238° East, 35.5691° North.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Goúvai, Ierápetra, Ágios Nikólaos (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Ierápetra (c. 12 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Ágios Nikólaos (c. 10 800 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Siteía (c. 8 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Goúvai (c. 7 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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. 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: 41 km N of Palekastro, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 26.238° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5691° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41 km N of Palekastro, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-12 02:38:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-19 01:12:01 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 0.753 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us6000c7n0 Id of event.
Event Code 6000c7n0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c7n0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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