Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Firá in Greece

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Firá in Greece. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 25.5283 East, latitude 36.5351 North, depth = 10 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:56:14 / 8:56 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pcar. Id of event: us7000pcar. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/02/25 / 2025-02-08 08:56:14 / February 8, 2025 @ 8:56 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Páros, Naxos. The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Naxos (c. 7 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Páros (c. 5 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and fourteen, in the last 10 days two hundred and eighty, in the past 30 days two hundred and eighty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 15 km NE of Firá, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	25.5283° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5351° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15 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	2025-02-08 08:56:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-27 12:25:42	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	35	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.348	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.59 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	81	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	us7000pcar	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pcar	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pcar,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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