M3.5 earthquake Greece
A magnitude 3.5 earthquake struck in Greece on Sun, Jan 2, 2005, 8:18 AM GMT+2 (06:18 UTC), 26 km (16 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.1 Greece-Albania border region. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 3.5 (Md, duration), minor
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2005-01-02 06:18:10 UTC
- Depth
- 26.0 km (16.2 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 38.800° N, 21.260° E
- Region
- Greece
- 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 usp000dcdq. 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
- 89°
- Stations used
- 10
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 25 in the 60 days after this one and 10 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 3.22 km W of Karpochóri, Greece · 7943 days ago · 23 km deep · 86 km away
- 3.04 km NE of Náfpaktos, Greece · 7934 days ago · 26 km deep · 67 km away
- 3.111 km NNE of Párga, Greece · 7933 days ago · 20 km deep · 95 km away
- 3.32 km NE of Pálairos, Greece · 7933 days ago · 9 km deep · 31 km away
- 3.37 km SE of Gavaloú, Greece · 7933 days ago · 4 km deep · 45 km away
- 3.613 km SE of Itháki, Greece · 7925 days ago · 10 km deep · 67 km away
- 4.1Greece-Albania border region · 7908 days ago · 5 km deep · 64 km away
- 3.32 km NNE of Antirrio, Greece · 7908 days ago · 6 km deep · 67 km away
- 3.014 km ESE of Chalandrítsa, Greece · 7907 days ago · 33 km deep · 100 km away
- 3.0Greece-Albania border region · 7906 days ago · 9 km deep · 72 km away
- 3.312 km SSW of Anthiró, Greece · 7904 days ago · 25 km deep · 51 km away
- 3.214 km S of Kallíthiro, Greece · 7902 days ago · 10 km deep · 68 km away
- 3.415 km W of Préveza, Greece · 7902 days ago · 19 km deep · 62 km away
- 3.418 km WNW of Lidoríki, Greece · 7898 days ago · 20 km deep · 68 km away
- 3.44 km WSW of Kyllíni, Greece · 7895 days ago · 2 km deep · 99 km away
- 3.719 km S of Lefkáda, Greece · 7895 days ago · 5 km deep · 53 km away
- 3.423 km SW of Lefkáda, Greece · 7894 days ago · 7 km deep · 64 km away
- 3.416 km N of Lixoúri, Greece · 7892 days ago · 14 km deep · 86 km away
- 3.13 km N of Antirrio, Greece · 7888 days ago · 12 km deep · 65 km away
- 3.02 km W of Rododáfni, Greece · 7887 days ago · 25 km deep · 89 km away
- 3.06 km WNW of Kamárai, Greece · 7887 days ago · 26 km deep · 79 km away
- 3.33 km SW of Kamárai, Greece · 7887 days ago · 14 km deep · 85 km away
- 2.915 km S of Lefkáda, Greece · 7885 days ago · 4 km deep · 47 km away
- 3.39 km NNE of Lixoúri, Greece · 7885 days ago · 5 km deep · 90 km away
- 3.21 km E of Antirrio, Greece · 7884 days ago · 5 km deep · 69 km away
Before
- 3.26 km NNE of Fyteíes, Greece · 7944 days ago · 4 km deep · 7 km away
- 4.41 km SW of Domokós, Greece · 7946 days ago · 98 km deep · 96 km away
- 2.92 km N of Stános, Greece · 7946 days ago · 21 km deep · 8 km away
- 3.515 km SW of Lefkáda, Greece · 7954 days ago · 8 km deep · 59 km away
- 3.42 km NNE of Náfpaktos, Greece · 7955 days ago · 17 km deep · 66 km away
- 3.58 km ESE of Párga, Greece · 7962 days ago · 25 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.418 km SSW of Morfovoúni, Greece · 7964 days ago · 13 km deep · 56 km away
- 3.22 km NE of Ovriá, Greece · 7968 days ago · 2 km deep · 79 km away
- 3.25 km ESE of Paravóla, Greece · 7970 days ago · 18 km deep · 36 km away
- 3.43 km S of Náfpaktos, Greece · 7970 days ago · 2 km deep · 70 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usp000dcdq. Read Fri, Oct 2, 2026, 2:10 AM UTC.