Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Amorgós in Greece

A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Amorgós in Greece on Monday. Id of earthquake: us6000pvei. Event ids that are associated: us6000pvei. Exact location of event, longitude 25.8658 East, latitude 36.5802 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/02/25 / 2025-02-17 15:12:11 / February 17, 2025 @ 3:12 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 15:12:11 / 3:12 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 73 km (45 miles) from Naxos (c. 7 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Páros (c. 5 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Páros, Naxos (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and four, in the past 30 days two hundred and sixty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-nine 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 28 km S of Amorgós, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	25.8658° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5802° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28 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	2025-02-17 15:12:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-26 15:32:07	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	246	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.513	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.12 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	us6000pvei	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pvei	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pvei,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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