Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Amorgós in Greece

A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Amorgós in Greece. Global time and date of event 20/06/25 / 2025-06-20 16:18:57 / June 20, 2025 @ 4:18 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:18:57 / 4:18 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 27.135 km (17 miles). Exact location, longitude 25.7631° East, latitude 36.6811° North, depth = 27.135 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000qlfq. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000qlfq.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mykonos, Páros, Naxos (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Mykonos (c. 7 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Naxos (c. 7 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Páros (c. 5 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 three and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 20 km SW of Amorgós, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	25.7631° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6811° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	27.135 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20 km SW of Amorgós, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-06-20 16:18:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-06-20 17:00:57	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	355	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	67	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.601	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	us6000qlfq	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qlfq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qlfq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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