Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Astypálaia in Greece

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Astypálaia in Greece. The temblor was reported at 16:09:27 / 4:09 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 07/06/25 / 2025-06-07 16:09:27 / June 7, 2025 @ 4:09 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 123.909 km (77 miles). Exact location of event, depth 123.909 km, 26.7226° East, 36.4266° North. Id of earthquake: us6000qiqq. Event ids that are associated: us6000qiqq.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bodrum, Datça, Turgutreis. Epicenter of the earthquake was 93 km (58 miles) from Bodrum (c. 39 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Kos (c. 19 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Turgutreis (c. 16 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Datça (c. 10 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Kálymnos (c. 10 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 36 km ESE of Astypálaia, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	26.7226° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4266° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	123.909 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	36 km ESE of Astypálaia, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-06-07 16:09:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-06-07 18:01:08	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	284	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	64	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.149	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	50	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	us6000qiqq	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qiqq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qiqq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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