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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Savália in Greece


Earthquake location 37.7878S, 21.2243WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Savália in Greece on Sunday. The epicenter was at a depth of 23.526 km (15 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 21.2243 East, latitude 37.7878 North, depth = 23.526 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/07/24 / 2024-07-07 14:41:04 / July 7, 2024 @ 2:41 pm. The temblor was detected at 14:41:04 / 2:41 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000mxlv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mxlv. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Áyios Konstandínos, Agrínio, Megalópoli. Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Pátra (c. 163 400 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Agrínio (c. 46 900 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Aígio (c. 20 700 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Náfpaktos (c. 13 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Mesolóngi (c. 12 700 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km WSW of Savália, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 21.2243° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.7878° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.526 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km WSW of Savália, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-07-07 14:41:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-07 15:20:18 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 340 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 59 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.825 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us7000mxlv Id of event.
Event Code 7000mxlv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mxlv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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