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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Mesariá in Greece

Posted by admin on February 23, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.4647S, 25.7601WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Mesariá in Greece on Wednesday. Exact location, longitude 25.7601° East, latitude 36.4647° North, depth = 10 km. 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). Event id: us7000pdf0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pdf0. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/02/25 / 2025-02-05 10:47:45 / February 5, 2025 @ 10:47 am. The temblor was reported at 10:47:45 / 10:47 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Páros, Naxos (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Naxos (c. 7 600 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Páros (c. 5 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and sixty-six, in the last 10 days two hundred and twenty-seven, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-six 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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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 28 km ENE of Mesariá, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 25.7601° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4647° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 km ENE of Mesariá, 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 10:47:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-23 13:03:44 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.371 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 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 us7000pdf0 Id of event.
Event Code 7000pdf0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pdf0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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