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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Lixoúri in Greece

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Earthquake location 38.2149S, 20.4445WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Lixoúri in Greece on Saturday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/07/25 / 2025-07-12 11:30:36 / July 12, 2025 @ 11:30 am. The temblor was picked up at 11:30:36 / 11:30 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43.062 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 20.4445 East, latitude 38.2149 North, depth = 43.062 km. Id of earthquake: us7000qc8s. Event ids that are associated: us7000qc8s. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Amaliáda, Mesolóngi, Préveza. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Préveza (c. 17 300 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Mesolóngi (c. 12 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Lefkáda (c. 8 700 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 1 km NNE of Lixoúri, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.4445° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.2149° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.062 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1 km NNE of Lixoúri, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-07-12 11:30:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-13 04:59:26 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 271 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.565 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 166 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 us7000qc8s Id of event.
Event Code 7000qc8s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qc8s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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