Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Íos in Greece

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Íos in Greece. Exact location, longitude 25.6107° East, latitude 36.6681° North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/02/25 / 2025-02-17 07:46:23 / February 17, 2025 @ 7:46 am. The temblor was reported at 07:46:23 / 7:46 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pe7i. Id of event: us7000pe7i. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mykonos, Páros, Naxos (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Mykonos (c. 7 700 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Naxos (c. 7 600 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Páros (c. 5 300 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 30 km ESE of Íos, Greece. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	25.6107° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6681° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30 km ESE of Íos, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-02-17 07:46:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-18 07:31:09	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	312	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	105	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.496	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.5 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	us7000pe7i	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pe7i	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pe7i,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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