A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Firá in Greece. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:53:24 / 6:53 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pb6g. Unique identifier: us7000pb6g. Global time and date of event 04/02/25 / 2025-02-04 06:53:24 / February 4, 2025 @ 6:53 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 25.6669° East, 36.5778° North.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (40 miles) from Naxos (c. 7 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Páros (c. 5 300 pop). 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).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days fourty-one 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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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: 27 km NE of Firá, Greece.
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