A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Kýthira in Greece on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/12/24 / 2024-12-07 02:58:01 / December 7, 2024 @ 2:58 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 22.7749 East, latitude 36.356 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 02:58:01 / 2:58 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000nwsw. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nwsw.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Spárti. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Event epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Spárti (c. 16 200 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 29 km NW of Kýthira, Greece.
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