Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Amorgós in Greece

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Amorgós in Greece. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/02/25 / 2025-02-06 02:02:10 / February 6, 2025 @ 2:02 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 02:02:10 / 2:02 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000pbq6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pbq6. Exact location of event, longitude 25.6612 East, latitude 36.653 North, depth = 11.377 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.377 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Mykonos (c. 7 700 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Naxos (c. 7 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Páros (c. 5 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns 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 fourteen, in the last 10 days seventy-one, in the past 30 days seventy-one and in the last 365 days seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 29 km SW of Amorgós, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	25.6612° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.653° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.377 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	29 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	2025-02-06 02:02:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-06 02:25:16	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	43	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.499	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.74 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	58	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	us7000pbq6	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pbq6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pbq6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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