Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 30 km NE of Firá, Greece

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Firá in Greece on Wednesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/02/25 / 2025-02-05 12:09:35 / February 5, 2025 @ 12:09 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:09:35 / 12:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 25.6958 East, latitude 36.5969 North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pdfa. Id of event: us7000pdfa. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Páros, Naxos (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Naxos (c. 7 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Páros (c. 5 300 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 ninety-one, in the last 10 days two hundred and sixty-six, in the past 30 days two hundred and sixty-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 30 km NE of Firá, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	25.6958° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5969° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30 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 12:09:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-27 06:42:56	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	284	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	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.461	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.92 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	84	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	us7000pdfa	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pdfa	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pdfa,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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