Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Amorgós in Greece

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Amorgós in Greece. The temblor was picked up at 03:47:32 / 3:47 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 25.6984 East, latitude 36.6721 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 21/03/25 / 2025-03-21 03:47:32 / March 21, 2025 @ 3:47 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us7000plhm. Event ids that are associated: us7000plhm.

Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Mykonos (c. 7 700 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Naxos (c. 7 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Páros (c. 5 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mykonos, Páros, Naxos. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 25 km SW of Amorgós, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	25.6984° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6721° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25 km SW of Amorgós, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-21 03:47:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-21 04:05:03	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	284	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	47	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.529	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.67 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	85	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	us7000plhm	Id of event.
Event Code	7000plhm	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000plhm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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