Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Íos in Greece

A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Íos in Greece. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:22:05 / 7:22 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 25.5937° East, latitude 36.6551° North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us7000parp. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000parp. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/02/25 / 2025-02-02 07:22:05 / February 2, 2025 @ 7:22 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Mykonos (c. 7 700 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Naxos (c. 7 600 pop), 62 km (38 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 Mykonos, Páros, Naxos (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 28 km ESE of Íos, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	25.5937° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6551° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28 km ESE of Íos, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-02-02 07:22:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-02 07:43:41	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	355	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	1.479	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.99 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	101	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	us7000parp	Id of event.
Event Code	7000parp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000parp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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