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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 14 km WSW of Amorgós, Greece


Earthquake location 36.79S, 25.7426WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Amorgós in Greece. The temblor was detected at 22:54:08 / 10:54 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000qbpg. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000qbpg. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 25.7426 East, latitude 36.79 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 09/07/25 / 2025-07-09 22:54:08 / July 9, 2025 @ 10:54 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Mykonos (c. 7 700 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Naxos (c. 7 600 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Páros (c. 5 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mykonos, Páros, Naxos.

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 sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 14 km WSW of Amorgós, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 25.7426° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.79° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14 km WSW 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 2025-07-09 22:54:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-09 23:12:41 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 326 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 71 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.69 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 100 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 us7000qbpg Id of event.
Event Code 7000qbpg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qbpg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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