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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Sitia in Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Sitia in Greece on Wednesday. Exact location, longitude 26.0513° East, latitude 35.0261° North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rp4l. Unique identifier: us6000rp4l. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:14:57 / 2:14 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 19/11/25 / 2025-11-19 14:14:57 / November 19, 2025 @ 2:14 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Irákleion, Néa Alikarnassós, Goúvai. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Irákleion (c. 137 200 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Ierápetra (c. 12 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Néa Alikarnassós (c. 11 900 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Ágios Nikólaos (c. 10 800 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Siteía (c. 8 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Goúvai (c. 7 800 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 20 km SSW of Sitia, Greece. 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	26.0513° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.0261° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20 km SSW of Sitia, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-11-19 14:14:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-20 12:57:31	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	57	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.046	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.73 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	215	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	us6000rp4l	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rp4l	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rp4l,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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