Greece earthquakes

M4.4 earthquake 43 km SSW of Lárdos, Greece

A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck 43 km SSW of Lárdos, Greece on Fri, Mar 2, 2001, 1:53 PM GMT+2 (11:53 UTC), 10 km (6 mi) below the surface.

A larger quake followed: M5.2 Dodecanese Islands, Greece. This one was a foreshock.

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The earthquake

Magnitude
4.4 (mb, body-wave), light
Magnitude from
USGS National Earthquake Information Center
Local time
UTC
2001-03-02 11:53:13 UTC
Depth
10.0 km (6.2 mi), shallow
Epicenter
35.737° N, 27.828° E
Region
Greece
Tsunami flag
No
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

What happened

The USGS’s account of the effects of this earthquake.

Felt strongly on Rhodes.

From the USGS event page for usp000aarx. U.S. Geological Survey text and figures are in the public domain.

Did you feel it?

No one has reported feeling this quake to the USGS.

How well it is located

Reviewed by a seismologist.

Depth from
OPERATOR_ASSIGNED
Stations used
114

Nearest places

Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.

Nearby

Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 14 in the 60 days after this one and 4 in the 30 days before it.

After

  1. 4.249 km SSW of Lárdos, Greece · 9345 days ago · 40 km deep · 7 km away
  2. 3.716 km SSW of Karpathos, Greece · 9344 days ago · 14 km deep · 74 km away
  3. 3.823 km SSE of Mandráki, Greece · 9341 days ago · 39 km deep · 94 km away
  4. 3.78 km WNW of Kremastí, Greece · 9341 days ago · 52 km deep · 82 km away
  5. 3.860 km ESE of Karpathos, Greece · 9338 days ago · 10 km deep · 50 km away
  6. 3.754 km NNW of Karpathos, Greece · 9328 days ago · 28 km deep · 85 km away
  7. 3.941 km SSW of Lárdos, Greece · 9317 days ago · 33 km deep · 2 km away
  8. 3.981 km SE of Lárdos, Greece · 9315 days ago · 33 km deep · 73 km away
  9. 4.064 km SE of Karpathos, Greece · 9314 days ago · 75 km deep · 63 km away
  10. 4.452 km SSW of Mandráki, Greece · 9311 days ago · 152 km deep · 96 km away
  11. 4.248 km SE of Lárdos, Greece · 9305 days ago · 5 km deep · 49 km away
  12. 3.918 km E of Karpathos, Greece · 9302 days ago · 9 km deep · 43 km away
  13. 3.722 km S of Karpathos, Greece · 9297 days ago · 5 km deep · 74 km away
  14. 5.2Dodecanese Islands, Greece · 9286 days ago · 33 km deep · 30 km away

Before

  1. 3.935 km SE of Lárdos, Greece · 9351 days ago · 4 km deep · 40 km away
  2. 4.020 km SE of Lárdos, Greece · 9365 days ago · 15 km deep · 37 km away
  3. 4.019 km SSW of Karpathos, Greece · 9365 days ago · 49 km deep · 76 km away
  4. 3.728 km NNE of Karpathos, Greece · 9366 days ago · 28 km deep · 46 km away

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Sources

From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usp000aarx. Read Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 10:12 AM UTC.