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              European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre

                Rapid Determination of Source Parameters
          operated at LDG (Paris), IGN (Madrid), INGV (Roma)

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	   EMSC HAS RECORDED THE FOLLOWING SEISMIC EVENT
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EARTHQUAKE on 31/12/2002 at 20:28 (UTC)
GREECE-ALBANIA BORDER REGION    

MAGNITUDE: mb 4.7 

Data provided by: INGV LDG  LJU  OGS  THE                           

Latitude    =  39.14 N
Longitude   =  20.94 E
Origin Time =  20:28:31.7 (UTC)
Depth       =   2 Km
RMS         =   0.75 sec
Gap         = 167 degrees
95% confidence ellipse: - Semi major = 12.7 Km
                        - Semi minor = 4.8 Km
                        - Azimuth of major axis =   7 degrees

Number of data used = 26

Preliminary location computed on Tue Dec 31 21:46:00 2002 (UTC)
Done by Jean-Denis MULLER

Comments :
Several aftershocks recorded - the main one occured at 20:47 (mb 4.3)

Message number: 141

All magnitudes estimations :
ML4.6 (INGV)  MB4.9 (LDG)              


Sta       Phase     Date     Time       Res     Dist Azm    Net
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LIT   a e P     2002/12/31 20:29:00.0   0.2     1.53  50    THE
XOR   a e P     2002/12/31 20:29:02.7  -0.8     1.76  82    THE
PAIG  a e P     2002/12/31 20:29:11.1   0.6     2.26  68    THE
AOS   a e P     2002/12/31 20:29:10.2  -0.7     2.28  88    THE
SOH   a e P     2002/12/31 20:29:15.2   1.1     2.50  47    THE
KNT   a e P     2002/12/31 20:29:15.3   1.1     2.51  36    THE
OUR   a e P     2002/12/31 20:29:15.0  -0.8     2.63  62    THE
MTTG  a   P     2002/12/31 20:29:39.4   0.1     4.27 256   INGV
CRES  a   P     2002/12/31 20:30:29.1  -0.1     7.81 330    LJU
LEGS  a   P     2002/12/31 20:30:31.2  -0.1     7.97 330    LJU
LJU   a   P     2002/12/31 20:30:36.6  -0.2     8.36 327    LJU
DRE   aci P     2002/12/31 20:30:43.1  -0.5     8.84 324    OGS
MPRI  ade P     2002/12/31 20:30:48.2  -0.3     9.19 323    OGS
BOO   ace P     2002/12/31 20:30:47.8  -0.7     9.20 323    OGS
CAE   aci P     2002/12/31 20:30:49.4  -0.4     9.29 320    OGS
PLRO  adi P     2002/12/31 20:30:51.6   0.9     9.35 324    OGS
ZOU   ace P     2002/12/31 20:30:51.3  -0.7     9.44 324    OGS
CSO   ace P     2002/12/31 20:30:52.5  -0.7     9.54 321    OGS
LPG   a e P     2002/12/31 20:31:31.1   0.4    12.27 305    LDG
LPL   a e P     2002/12/31 20:31:30.5  -0.4    12.29 305    LDG
ORIF  a e P     2002/12/31 20:31:36.6   1.8    12.59 302    LDG
HAU   a e P     2002/12/31 20:31:49.3  -1.2    13.78 314    LDG
SMF   a e P     2002/12/31 20:32:00.0  -0.6    14.59 306    LDG
LOR   a e P     2002/12/31 20:32:04.8   0.2    14.85 308    LDG
SGMF  a e P     2002/12/31 20:33:00.0   1.3    19.22 305    LDG
QUIF  a e P     2002/12/31 20:33:02.7   0.3    19.49 304    LDG


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