M3.0 earthquake 14 km NNW of Datça, Turkey
A magnitude 3.0 earthquake struck 14 km NNW of Datça, Turkey on Mon, Aug 15, 2005, 1:55 AM GMT+3 (22:55 UTC), 23 km (14 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.0 15 km ESE of Kos, Greece. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 3.0 (Md, duration), minor
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2005-08-14 22:55:01 UTC
- Depth
- 23.0 km (14.3 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 36.850° N, 27.610° E
- Region
- Turkey
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
What happened
The USGS’s account of the effects of this earthquake.
no people dead or missing; no people injured; no buildings damaged or destroyed
From the USGS event page for usp000dxbn. 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.
- Station coverage gap
- 182°, poorly surrounded by stations
- Stations used
- 4
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 15 in the 60 days after this one and 15 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.015 km ESE of Kos, Greece · 7714 days ago · 21 km deep · 15 km away
- 3.029 km WSW of Lárdos, Greece · 7710 days ago · 57 km deep · 100 km away
- 3.517 km S of Turgut, Turkey · 7707 days ago · 25 km deep · 54 km away
- 3.218 km ESE of Kos, Greece · 7701 days ago · 29 km deep · 11 km away
- 3.115 km NNW of Didim, Turkey · 7695 days ago · 12 km deep · 83 km away
- 3.224 km W of Émponas, Greece · 7687 days ago · 46 km deep · 67 km away
- 3.218 km N of Datça, Turkey · 7684 days ago · 26 km deep · 10 km away
- 3.628 km ESE of Güvercinlik, Turkey · 7683 days ago · 24 km deep · 33 km away
- 3.210 km NW of Agía Marína, Greece · 7679 days ago · 5 km deep · 85 km away
- 3.23 km SSE of Ula, Turkey · 7677 days ago · 9 km deep · 77 km away
- 3.44 km SW of Ula, Turkey · 7677 days ago · 14 km deep · 73 km away
- 3.012 km ESE of Kardámaina, Greece · 7674 days ago · 10 km deep · 33 km away
- 3.420 km W of Kéfalos, Greece · 7671 days ago · 20 km deep · 79 km away
- 3.410 km SE of Koçarl?, Turkey · 7665 days ago · 30 km deep · 95 km away
- 3.27 km WNW of Mandráki, Greece · 7659 days ago · 8 km deep · 56 km away
Before
- 3.415 km NW of Dalyan, Turkey · 7719 days ago · 45 km deep · 81 km away
- 3.321 km S of Mandráki, Greece · 7719 days ago · 11 km deep · 64 km away
- 3.320 km SSE of Kos, Greece · 7721 days ago · 21 km deep · 24 km away
- 3.116 km W of Kéfalos, Greece · 7722 days ago · 45 km deep · 76 km away
- 3.428 km ESE of Güvercinlik, Turkey · 7723 days ago · 54 km deep · 34 km away
- 3.116 km SSW of ?çmeler, Turkey · 7725 days ago · 31 km deep · 50 km away
- 3.251 km S of Mandráki, Greece · 7726 days ago · 31 km deep · 88 km away
- 3.216 km NE of Datça, Turkey · 7727 days ago · 27 km deep · 17 km away
- 4.825 km SW of Kéfalos, Greece · 7731 days ago · 133 km deep · 80 km away
- 3.519 km ESE of Kos, Greece · 7732 days ago · 16 km deep · 10 km away
- 3.51 km SSW of Ula, Turkey · 7734 days ago · 9 km deep · 76 km away
- 3.66 km SSW of Ula, Turkey · 7734 days ago · 12 km deep · 72 km away
- 3.260 km WSW of Émponas, Greece · 7737 days ago · 4 km deep · 95 km away
- 2.8Dodecanese Islands, Greece · 7743 days ago · 29 km deep · 10 km away
- 3.029 km S of Mandráki, Greece · 7744 days ago · 5 km deep · 72 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usp000dxbn. Read Thu, Oct 1, 2026, 2:50 PM UTC.