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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 20 km NE of Firá, Greece

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Earthquake location 36.5559S, 25.5881WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Firá in Greece on Saturday. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:08:34 / 3:08 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/02/25 / 2025-02-08 03:08:34 / February 8, 2025 @ 3:08 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us7000pc8w. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pc8w. Exact location, longitude 25.5881° East, latitude 36.5559° North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (40 miles) from Naxos (c. 7 600 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Páros (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Páros, Naxos (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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: 20 km NE of Firá, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 25.5881° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5559° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20 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 2025-02-08 03:08:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-08 22:53:21 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 284 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 48 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.386 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us7000pc8w Id of event.
Event Code 7000pc8w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pc8w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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