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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Caniçal in Portugal

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Caniçal in Portugal on Wednesday. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:19:11 / 10:19 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000rcp6. Event ids that are associated: us6000rcp6. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -16.3194 West, latitude 32.663 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 24/09/25 / 2025-09-24 22:19:11 / September 24, 2025 @ 10:19 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ribeira Brava, São Vicente, Câmara de Lobos (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 54 km (34 miles) from Funchal (c. 100 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Câmara de Lobos (c. 32 200 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Machico (c. 12 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Caniço (c. 12 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Santana (c. 8 800 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Camacha (c. 8 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Portugal (c. 10 676 000 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 one 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 40 km ESE of Caniçal, Portugal. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Camacha Câmara de Lobos Caniçal Canico Funchal Machico Portugal Ribeira Brava Santana São Vicente

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-16.3194° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.663° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	40 km ESE of Caniçal, Portugal	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-09-24 22:19:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-24 23:29:55	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	246	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	7.51	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.86 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	206	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	us6000rcp6	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rcp6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rcp6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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