Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Mesariá in Greece

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Mesariá in Greece on Friday. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:57:52 / 10:57 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000nu3g. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nu3g. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/09/24 / 2024-09-20 10:57:52 / September 20, 2024 @ 10:57 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 25.7211° East, latitude 36.4555° North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Páros, Naxos (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 79 km (49 miles) from Naxos (c. 7 600 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Páros (c. 5 300 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 25 km ENE of Mesariá, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	25.7211° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4555° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25 km ENE of Mesariá, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-20 10:57:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-17 08:01:22	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	284	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.346	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.97 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	91	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000nu3g	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nu3g	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nu3g,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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