Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Grindavík in Iceland

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Grindavík in Iceland on Friday. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:04:16 / 8:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -23.2381 West, latitude 63.6746 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000reln. Unique identifier: us6000reln. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/09/25 / 2025-09-12 20:04:16 / September 12, 2025 @ 8:04 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mosfellsbær, Akranes, Reykjavík (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (52 miles) from Reykjavík (c. 118 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Kópavogur (c. 31 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Hafnarfjörður (c. 26 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Garðabær (c. 11 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Mosfellsbær (c. 8 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Akranes (c. 6 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Iceland (c. 309 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 43 km WSW of Grindavík, Iceland. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-23.2381° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	63.6746° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43 km WSW of Grindavík, Iceland	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-09-12 20:04:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-08 16:05:57	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	284	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	55	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.363	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.79 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	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000reln	Id of event.
Event Code	6000reln	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000reln,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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