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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 21 km NE of Firá, Greece


Earthquake location 36.5332S, 25.622WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Firá in Greece. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:04:43 / 12:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 25.622° East, 36.5332° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000pd5k. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pd5k. Global time and date of event 04/02/25 / 2025-02-04 12:04:43 / February 4, 2025 @ 12:04 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Naxos (c. 7 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Páros (c. 5 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Páros, Naxos (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and thirty-eight, in the last 10 days two hundred and eighty-six, in the past 30 days two hundred and eighty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 21 km NE of Firá, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 25.622° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5332° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21 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 2025-02-04 12:04:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-27 19:44:16 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 271 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 54 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.377 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us7000pd5k Id of event.
Event Code 7000pd5k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pd5k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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