Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Firá in Greece

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Firá in Greece. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pbig. Unique identifier: us7000pbig. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 25.653 East, latitude 36.5653 North, depth = 10 km. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:35:08 / 10:35 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/02/25 / 2025-02-05 10:35:08 / February 5, 2025 @ 10:35 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mykonos, Páros, Naxos (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 102 km (63 miles) from Mykonos (c. 7 700 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Naxos (c. 7 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Páros (c. 5 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 fourteen, in the last 10 days sixty, in the past 30 days sixty and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 25 km NE of Firá, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	25.653° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5653° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25 km NE 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	2025-02-05 10:35:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-05 11:34:57	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	369	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	81	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.417	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	86	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	us7000pbig	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pbig	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pbig,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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