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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Firá in Greece

Posted by admin on February 8, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.5272S, 25.5957WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Firá in Greece on Saturday. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 25.5957° East, 36.5272° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 08:36:04 / 8:36 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us7000pcac. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pcac. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/02/25 / 2025-02-08 08:36:04 / February 8, 2025 @ 8:36 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Naxos (c. 7 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Páros (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Páros, Naxos (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days ninety-nine, in the past 30 days ninety-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 18 km NE of Firá, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 25.5957° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5272° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18 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 08:36:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-08 09:06:55 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 90 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.363 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.35 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 us7000pcac Id of event.
Event Code 7000pcac An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pcac, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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