Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Firá in Greece

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Firá in Greece on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/02/25 / 2025-02-03 08:06:30 / February 3, 2025 @ 8:06 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 25.6585 East, latitude 36.553 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 08:06:30 / 8:06 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pcxx. Unique identifier: us7000pcxx.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Páros, Naxos. Event epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Naxos (c. 7 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Páros (c. 5 300 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 two hundred and eighty-two, in the last 10 days two hundred and eighty-eight, in the past 30 days two hundred and eighty-nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 25 km NE of Firá, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	25.6585° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.553° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25 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	2025-02-03 08:06:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-27 19:53:02	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	39	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.408	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.46 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	us7000pcxx	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pcxx	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pcxx,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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