Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Kastrí in Greece

A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Kastrí in Greece. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 24.1738° East, latitude 34.853° North, depth = 41.261 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000px4q. Id of event: us7000px4q. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 41.261 km (26 miles). The temblor was picked up at 19:57:35 / 7:57 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/05/25 / 2025-05-04 19:57:35 / May 4, 2025 @ 7:57 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Chaniá (c. 54 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Rethymno (c. 29 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Soúda (c. 6 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Moíres (c. 6 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Mourniés (c. 5 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chaniá, Mourniés, Soúda.

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	24.1738° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.853° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	41.261 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 km ENE of Kastrí, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-05-04 19:57:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-04 20:45:04	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	259	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	42	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.73	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.93 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	221	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	us7000px4q	Id of event.
Event Code	7000px4q	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000px4q,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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