Jan 27, 2012

ALERT: mb 5.3 CRETE, GREECE 63 km SW Kondakhor 27/01/2012 01:33 (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 27/01/2012 at 01:33 (UTC)
CRETE, GREECE 63 km SW Kondakhor

MAGNITUDE: mb 5.3

Data provided by: BEO BGSG BUC DDA GFU GFZ IMP INGV KAN LED
LJU LVV MAD MSO NEIC NEWS ODC SC3 THE ZAMG

Latitude = 35.98 N
Longitude = 25.00 E
Origin Time = 01:33:23.8 (UTC)
Depth = 13 Km
RMS = 3.26 sec
Gap = 24 degrees
95% confidence ellipse: - Semi major = 4.6 Km
- Semi minor = 2.9 Km
- Azimuth of major axis = 176 degrees

Number of data used = 642

Preliminary location computed on Fri Jan 27 02:02:11 2012 (UTC)
Done by J-P Santoire

Comments :

Message number: 1583

All magnitudes estimations :
mb5.1 (BEO) Mw5.5 (BGSG) ML5.0 (DDA) M 5.2 (GFZ)
ML5.3 (KAN) mb5.3 (LED) ML2.9 (LJU) mb5.2 (MAD)
mb5.2 (MSO) mb5.0 (MSO) mb5.2 (NEIC) M 5.2 (NEIC)
ML5.1 (ODC) mb5.2 (SC3) ML5.3 (THE) mb4.9 (ZAMG)

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