Quakedle
Puzzle #60 was 17 km WSW of Lixoúri, Greece.
Quakedle is an educational game. Event details and tsunami indicators must not be used for emergency decisions; follow official local authorities and current USGS notices.
USGS — Tectonic Plates of the Earth
How it scored
- Magnitude
- M4.8 — light class
- Magnitude type
- mww — W-phase moment magnitude
- Depth
- 34.0 km — shallow
- Region
- The Mediterranean
- Tsunami indicator
- USGS tsunami indicator not set
- Felt reports
- 15 DYFI reports
- PAGER alert
- No PAGER alert color reported
- Tectonic plates
- African Plate · Eurasian Plate · Anatolian Plate
- Tectonic context
- Africa–Eurasia convergence is partitioned across subduction zones, mountain belts, and crustal faults around the Mediterranean and nearby Atlantic margin.
Also on the record
- USGS reports magnitude M4.8. Which standard descriptive class contains it?
- Light (M4.0–4.9)
- The hypocentral depth is 34.0 km. Which depth band is it in?
- Shallow (less than 70 km)
- USGS locates the event at “17 km WSW of Lixoúri, Greece”. Which broad authored region matches?
- The Mediterranean
- What does the USGS tsunami indicator say for this event?
- No — USGS did not set the event’s tsunami indicator; that is not a forecast.
- Is this the largest earthquake in the supplied USGS week comparison?
- No — at least one supplied week event has a higher magnitude.