Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Évora in Portugal

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Évora in Portugal. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/04/25 / 2025-04-16 02:44:22 / April 16, 2025 @ 2:44 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000q6fm. Unique identifier: us6000q6fm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 02:44:22 / 2:44 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -8.0079° West, latitude 38.4902° North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Setúbal, Serpa, Vale da Amoreira. Close country/countries that might be effected, Portugal (c. 10 676 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Setúbal (c. 117 100 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Évora (c. 55 600 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Beja (c. 34 800 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Montemor-o-Novo (c. 12 900 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Vendas Novas (c. 11 200 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 12 km SW of Évora, Portugal. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-8.0079° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.4902° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km SW of Évora, Portugal	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-04-16 02:44:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-16 13:33:45	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.5	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	130	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	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.499	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	164	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000q6fm	Id of event.
Event Code	6000q6fm	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000q6fm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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