A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Amorgós in Greece on Wednesday. Exact location, longitude 25.7328° East, latitude 36.5938° North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/02/25 / 2025-02-05 15:58:48 / February 5, 2025 @ 3:58 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us7000pdfp. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pdfp. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 15:58:48 / 3:58 pm (local time epicenter).
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). Event epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Naxos (c. 7 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Páros (c. 5 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and two, in the last 10 days two hundred and ninety-one, in the past 30 days two hundred and ninety-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-nine 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. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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 SSW of Amorgós, Greece.
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