Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Pólis in Cyprus

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Pólis in Cyprus on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 32.4592 East, latitude 35.0254 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 14:26:11 / 2:26 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/11/25 / 2025-11-12 14:26:11 / November 12, 2025 @ 2:26 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000rey2. Unique identifier: us7000rey2.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Cyprus (c. 1 103 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dhali, Yeri, Kyrenia (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Nicosia (c. 200 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Limassol (c. 154 000 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Paphos (c. 36 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Kyrenia (c. 26 700 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Mórfou (c. 14 800 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Léfka (c. 7 800 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Yeri (c. 7 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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: 3 km ESE of Pólis, Cyprus. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	32.4592° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.0254° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3 km ESE of Pólis, 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 14:26:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-12 11:11:14	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	326	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	0.719	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.63 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	97	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	us7000rey2	Id of event.
Event Code	7000rey2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000rey2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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