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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Amorgós in Greece


Earthquake location 36.696S, 25.6905WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Amorgós in Greece. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 25.6905 East, latitude 36.696 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 20:53:25 / 8:53 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pd03. Id of event: us7000pd03. 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. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/02/25 / 2025-02-11 20:53:25 / February 11, 2025 @ 8:53 pm.

Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Mykonos (c. 7 700 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Naxos (c. 7 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Páros (c. 5 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mykonos, Páros, Naxos.

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 one hundred and fourty-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 23 km SW of Amorgós, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 25.6905° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.696° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23 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 2025-02-11 20:53:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-11 21:32:51 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 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.548 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us7000pd03 Id of event.
Event Code 7000pd03 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pd03, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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