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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Firá in Greece


Earthquake location 36.5418S, 25.5645WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Firá in Greece. Global time and date of event 08/02/25 / 2025-02-08 09:10:06 / February 8, 2025 @ 9:10 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 25.5645° East, 36.5418° North. Unique identifier: us7000pcan. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pcan. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:10:06 / 9:10 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Páros, Naxos (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Naxos (c. 7 600 pop), 71 km (44 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 eight, in the last 10 days one hundred and two, in the past 30 days one hundred and two and in the last 365 days one hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 17 km NE of Firá, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 25.5645° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5418° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17 km NE of Firá, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-08 09:10:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-08 10:27:25 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 298 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 52 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.366 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us7000pcan Id of event.
Event Code 7000pcan An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pcan, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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