Greece earthquakes

M5.2 earthquake 7 km E of Tsarítsani, Greece

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck 7 km E of Tsarítsani, Greece on Mon, Jun 9, 2003, 10:06 AM GMT+3 (07:06 UTC), 18 km (11 mi) below the surface.

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The earthquake

Magnitude
5.2 (mwc), moderate
Local time
UTC
2003-06-09 07:06:39 UTC
Depth
17.8 km (11.1 mi), shallow
Epicenter
39.893° N, 22.309° E
Region
Greece
Strongest shaking
VI, strong shaking
Tsunami flag
No
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

Deaths and damage

From NOAA NCEI’s Significant Earthquake Database (record 5699), matched to this event by time and place.

Damage
Limited (under about $1 million)
Houses damaged
50

Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.

NOAA’s full record of this earthquake

Shaking

The USGS ShakeMap: shaking estimated from seismic stations and the quake’s size, on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale.

Strongest estimated
VI, strong shaking
Peak ground acceleration
12.8% of gravity
Peak ground velocity
1.5 cm/s
Map
Automatic
USGS ShakeMap: estimated shaking intensity around the epicenter
Estimated shaking intensity. Map: USGS ShakeMap.

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 110°, dip 36°, rake -107°
Nodal plane 2
Strike 310°, dip 56°, rake -78°

How well it is located

Reviewed by a seismologist.

Depth from
CONSTRAINED_BY_DEPTH_PHASES
Station coverage gap
44°
Stations used
347

Nearest places

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

Nearby

Within 100 km, magnitude 2.2 and up: 23 in the 60 days after this one and 7 in the 30 days before it.

After

Before

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Sources

From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usp000bzf2 (also filed as gcmtb060903b, gcmt20030609070639, iscgem6931991). Read Wed, Sep 30, 2026, 3:12 PM UTC.