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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Lárdos in Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Lárdos in Greece. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/05/25 / 2025-05-18 07:29:52 / May 18, 2025 @ 7:29 am. The temblor was detected at 07:29:52 / 7:29 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 28.1025° East, 36.0079° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pzze. Id of event: us7000pzze. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Datça, Ródos, Triánta. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Event epicenter was 49 km (31 miles) from Ródos (c. 56 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Triánta (c. 11 500 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Datça (c. 10 100 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Faliraki (c. 6 000 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Afántou (c. 5 600 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Archángelos (c. 5 400 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twelve 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: 12 km SE of Lárdos, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	28.1025° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.0079° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km SE of Lárdos, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-05-18 07:29:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-18 08:46:21	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	25	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.206	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.49 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	153	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	us7000pzze	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pzze	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pzze,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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