A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Kéfalos in Greece. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pi4u. Id of event: us6000pi4u. Exact location, longitude 26.7736° East, latitude 36.5712° North, depth = 148.141 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:46:56 / 8:46 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 148.141 km (92 miles). Global time and date of event 06/01/25 / 2025-01-06 08:46:56 / January 6, 2025 @ 8:46 am UTC/GMT.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Datça, Bodrum, Turgutreis. Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Bodrum (c. 39 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Kos (c. 19 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Turgutreis (c. 16 500 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Datça (c. 10 100 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Kálymnos (c. 10 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 two and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 25 km SW of Kéfalos, Greece.
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