Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Firá in Greece

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Firá in Greece. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/02/25 / 2025-02-09 11:59:44 / February 9, 2025 @ 11:59 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us7000pch7. Event ids that are associated: us7000pch7. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:59:44 / 11:59 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 25.7198 East, latitude 36.5829 North, depth = 10 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Páros, Naxos. The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Naxos (c. 7 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Páros (c. 5 300 pop). Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 31 km NE of Firá, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	25.7198° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5829° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31 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	2025-02-09 11:59:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-16 08:40:27	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	298	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	131	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.457	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	38	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	us7000pch7	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pch7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pch7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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