Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Makry Gialos in Greece

Earthquake location 34.2989S, 26.1549WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Makry Gialos in Greece. The temblor was picked up at 02:02:53 / 2:02 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us70008m5k. Unique identifier: us70008m5k. Exact location of event, longitude 26.1549 East, latitude 34.2989 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/04/20 / 2020-04-03 00:02:53 / April 3, 2020 @ 12:02 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ierápetra. Earthquake epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Ierápetra (c. 12 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 84 km SSE of Makry Gialos, Greece.

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