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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 30 km S of Amorgós, Greece


Earthquake location 36.5641S, 25.8397WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Amorgós in Greece on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 25.8397 East, latitude 36.5641 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us7000pefq. Event ids that are associated: us7000pefq. Global time and date of event 18/02/25 / 2025-02-18 04:46:52 / February 18, 2025 @ 4:46 am UTC/GMT. 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). The temblor was picked up at 04:46:52 / 4:46 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Páros, Naxos. Event epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Naxos (c. 7 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Páros (c. 5 300 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seventy-nine, in the past 30 days two hundred and two and in the last 365 days two hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 30 km S of Amorgós, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 25.8397° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5641° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30 km S 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 2025-02-18 04:46:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-18 05:01:59 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 400 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 76 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.489 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 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 mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000pefq Id of event.
Event Code 7000pefq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pefq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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