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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 11 km ESE of Ouranoupolis, Greece

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Earthquake location 40.2851S, 24.0985WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Ouranoupolis in Greece. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/09/25 / 2025-09-22 01:20:01 / September 22, 2025 @ 1:20 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qxrh. Id of event: us7000qxrh. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 01:20:01 / 1:20 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 24.0985 East, latitude 40.2851 North, depth = 12.194 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.194 km (8 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kalamariá, Peraía, Triandría (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) from Kalamariá (c. 91 600 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Sérres (c. 58 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kavála (c. 54 000 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Dráma (c. 44 800 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Pylaía (c. 23 500 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Panórama (c. 16 600 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Peraía (c. 16 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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: 11 km ESE of Ouranoupolis, Greece.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 24.0985° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.2851° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.194 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11 km ESE of Ouranoupolis, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-09-22 01:20:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-22 01:33:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.3 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 370 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 46 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.246 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us7000qxrh Id of event.
Event Code 7000qxrh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qxrh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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