Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Firá in Greece

A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Firá in Greece. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 25.6441 East, latitude 36.6203 North, depth = 16.247 km. Event id: us7000pyx9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pyx9. 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: 12/05/25 / 2025-05-12 23:30:11 / May 12, 2025 @ 11:30 pm. The temblor was detected at 23:30:11 / 11:30 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16.247 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Mykonos (c. 7 700 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Naxos (c. 7 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Páros (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mykonos, Páros, Naxos (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 29 km NE of Firá, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	25.6441° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6203° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.247 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	29 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	2025-05-12 23:30:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-12 23:49:03	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	4.3	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	370	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	98	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.464	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.84 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	56	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000pyx9	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pyx9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pyx9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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