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19 May 2020

ALERT: mb 5.4 CRETE, GREECE 114 km S Kritsa 18/05/2020 23:22 (UTC)

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European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre

Rapid Determination of Source Parameters
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WARNING : These parameters are preliminary and subject to revision.
Location and magnitude estimations may be revised if necessary in
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EARTHQUAKE on 18/05/2020 at 23:22 (UTC)
CRETE, GREECE 114 km S Kritsa

MAGNITUDE: mb 5.4

Data provided by: BEO BUD GFZ GSRC KAN LJU MAD NOA SC3 THE

Latitude = 34.14 N
Longitude = 25.62 E
Origin Time = 23:22:34.9 (UTC)
Depth = 10 Km
RMS = 1.71 sec
Gap = 54 degrees
95% confidence ellipse: - Semi major = 6.5 Km
- Semi minor = 4.7 Km
- Azimuth of major axis = 16 degrees

Number of data used = 322

Preliminary location computed on Mon May 18 23:34:27 2020 (UTC)
Done by Pascal Roudil

Comments :

Message number: 2948

All magnitudes estimations :
M 5.0 (BEO) M 5.2 (BUD) M 5.3 (GFZ) Mb5.7 (GSRC)
Mw5.3 (KAN) Mb5.8 (MAD) ML5.2 (NOA) M 5.4 (SC3)
Mb5.5 (THE)

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