Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Firá in Greece

A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Firá in Greece. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/02/25 / 2025-02-06 03:13:32 / February 6, 2025 @ 3:13 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us7000pdnw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pdnw. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 25.6701 East, latitude 36.5496 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 03:13:32 / 3:13 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Páros, Naxos (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 67 km (42 miles) from Naxos (c. 7 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Páros (c. 5 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and ten, in the last 10 days three hundred and nineteen, in the past 30 days three hundred and twenty and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 25 km ENE of Firá, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	25.6701° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5496° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25 km ENE 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	2025-02-06 03:13:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-05 02:09:38	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	246	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	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.409	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.26 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	us7000pdnw	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pdnw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pdnw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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