Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Mesariá in Greece

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Mesariá in Greece. Exact location of event, longitude 25.6605 East, latitude 36.4924 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly 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). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:51:44 / 12:51 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 01/02/25 / 2025-02-01 12:51:44 / February 1, 2025 @ 12:51 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us7000pamr. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pamr.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (45 miles) from Naxos (c. 7 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Páros (c. 5 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Páros, Naxos (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 21 km ENE of Mesariá, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	25.6605° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4924° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21 km ENE of Mesariá, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-02-01 12:51:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-02 05:59:05	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	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.355	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.28 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	us7000pamr	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pamr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pamr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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