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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Íos in Greece


Earthquake location 36.6607S, 25.4836WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Íos in Greece on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000pdnr. Event ids that are associated: us7000pdnr. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/02/25 / 2025-02-06 03:00:44 / February 6, 2025 @ 3:00 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 25.4836 East, latitude 36.6607 North, depth = 10 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:00:44 / 3:00 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mykonos, Páros, Naxos (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Mykonos (c. 7 700 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Naxos (c. 7 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Páros (c. 5 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 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 two hundred and seven, in the last 10 days three hundred and sixteen, in the past 30 days three hundred and seventeen and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 19 km ESE of Íos, Greece. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 25.4836° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6607° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19 km ESE of Íos, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-06 03:00:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-04 23:55:08 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 298 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.452 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us7000pdnr Id of event.
Event Code 7000pdnr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pdnr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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