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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Skýros in Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Skýros in Greece on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 24.2614 East, latitude 39.0293 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us6000rnu8. Event ids that are associated: us6000rnu8. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:04:10 / 9:04 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/11/25 / 2025-11-17 21:04:10 / November 17, 2025 @ 9:04 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Schimatári, Dhrosiá, Chalkída (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Chalkída (c. 54 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Néa Artáki (c. 9 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Vasilikón (c. 7 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Psachná (c. 5 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Skiáthos (c. 5 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Alivéri (c. 5 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Dhrosiá (c. 5 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 nine 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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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	24.2614° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.0293° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	29 km WNW of Skýros, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-11-17 21:04:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-17 21:21:12	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	312	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	34	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.5	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	80	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000rnu8	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rnu8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rnu8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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