Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Geroskipou in Cyprus

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Geroskipou in Cyprus on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude 32.4128 East, latitude 34.7426 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/11/25 / 2025-11-12 09:36:18 / November 12, 2025 @ 9:36 am. Id of earthquake: us7000rexe. Event ids that are associated: us7000rexe. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 09:36:18 / 9:36 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Xeri, Mórfou, Limassol. The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Limassol (c. 154 000 pop), 4 km (2 miles) from Paphos (c. 36 000 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Mórfou (c. 14 800 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Léfka (c. 7 800 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Ýpsonas (c. 7 300 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Xeri (c. 5 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Cyprus (c. 1 103 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 3 km WSW of Geroskipou, Cyprus.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	32.4128° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.7426° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3 km WSW of Geroskipou, Cyprus	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-11-12 09:36:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-03 08:54:56	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	271	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	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.786	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.97 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	160	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	us7000rexe	Id of event.
Event Code	7000rexe	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000rexe,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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