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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Firá in Greece

Posted by admin on February 23, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.5823S, 25.6876WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Firá in Greece. Id of earthquake: us7000pdf6. Event ids that are associated: us7000pdf6. Exact location of event, longitude 25.6876 East, latitude 36.5823 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 11:03:44 / 11:03 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/02/25 / 2025-02-05 11:03:44 / February 5, 2025 @ 11:03 am. 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).

Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from Naxos (c. 7 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Páros (c. 5 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Páros, Naxos (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 29 km NE of Firá, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 25.6876° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5823° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29 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 2025-02-05 11:03:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-23 13:26:09 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 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.445 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us7000pdf6 Id of event.
Event Code 7000pdf6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pdf6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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