Greece earthquakes

M5.0 earthquake 16 km ESE of Patitírion, Greece

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck 16 km ESE of Patitírion, Greece on Mon, Jul 30, 2001, 6:24 PM GMT+3 (15:24 UTC), 10 km (6 mi) below the surface.

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The earthquake

Magnitude: 5.0 (Mwc, centroid moment), moderate
Magnitude from: USGS National Earthquake Information Center
Local time: Mon, Jul 30, 2001, 6:24 PM GMT+3
UTC: 2001-07-30 15:24:56 UTC
Depth: 10.0 km (6.2 mi), shallow
Epicenter: 39.091° N, 24.044° E
Region: Greece
Tsunami flag: No
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

Magnitude estimates

Different scales measure different things and differ by a few tenths. The USGS marks one as preferred, and it is the one this page uses.

Mag.	Scale	Computed by	Notes
5.0	Mwc, centroid moment	USGS National Earthquake Information Center	Preferred · Reviewed
4.98	Mw, moment	ISC-GEM global catalog	Final · ±0.1
5.0	Mwc, centroid moment	Global CMT project	Preliminary

What happened

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

Felt on Skyros, Greece.

From the USGS event page for usp000akhg. 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.

Fault motion and ground failure

How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.

Faulting: Normal
Nodal plane 1: Strike 48°, dip 37°, rake -116°
Nodal plane 2: Strike 259°, dip 58°, rake -72°

How well it is located

Reviewed by a seismologist.

Depth from: OPERATOR_ASSIGNED
Stations used: 270

Nearest places

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

Nearby

Within 100 km, magnitude 2.0 and up: 149 in the 60 days after this one and 137 in the 30 days before it.

After

The first 60 of 149.

Before

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Sources

From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usp000akhg (also filed as gcmtb073001d, gcmt20010730152456, iscgem1939499). Read Sun, Oct 4, 2026, 9:44 AM UTC.