M3.0 earthquake 29 km WSW of Lárdos, Greece
A magnitude 3.0 earthquake struck 29 km WSW of Lárdos, Greece on Tue, Aug 23, 2005, 2:13 AM GMT+3 (23:13 UTC), 57 km (35 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.9 24 km ENE of Karpathos, 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
- 2005-08-22 23:13:28 UTC
- Depth
- 57.0 km (35.4 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 35.960° N, 27.730° 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 usp000dxvd. 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
- 177°
- 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: 19 in the 60 days after this one and 13 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 3.133 km NE of Karpathos, Greece · 7710 days ago · 22 km deep · 35 km away
- 3.025 km E of Karpathos, Greece · 7709 days ago · 25 km deep · 50 km away
- 3.329 km E of Karpathos, Greece · 7709 days ago · 24 km deep · 57 km away
- 3.250 km NNW of Karpathos, Greece · 7701 days ago · 25 km deep · 60 km away
- 3.224 km W of Émponas, Greece · 7690 days ago · 46 km deep · 35 km away
- 3.044 km NNW of Fry, Greece · 7686 days ago · 51 km deep · 98 km away
- 3.224 km SE of Fry, Greece · 7679 days ago · 5 km deep · 97 km away
- 3.012 km ESE of Kardámaina, Greece · 7677 days ago · 10 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.117 km SSE of Fry, Greece · 7676 days ago · 29 km deep · 99 km away
- 3.226 km SSE of Karpathos, Greece · 7676 days ago · 43 km deep · 83 km away
- 3.59 km SSE of Fry, Greece · 7668 days ago · 29 km deep · 98 km away
- 3.655 km E of Karpathos, Greece · 7667 days ago · 31 km deep · 52 km away
- 3.317 km SE of Fry, Greece · 7664 days ago · 5 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.924 km ENE of Karpathos, Greece · 7663 days ago · 21 km deep · 48 km away
- 3.330 km NNE of Karpathos, Greece · 7662 days ago · 10 km deep · 45 km away
- 3.27 km WNW of Mandráki, Greece · 7662 days ago · 8 km deep · 96 km away
- 3.229 km S of Karpathos, Greece · 7660 days ago · 7 km deep · 92 km away
- 3.453 km NNW of Fry, Greece · 7659 days ago · 58 km deep · 96 km away
- 3.721 km NE of Karpathos, Greece · 7654 days ago · 22 km deep · 48 km away
Before
- 3.412 km NE of Fry, Greece · 7713 days ago · 25 km deep · 83 km away
- 4.015 km ESE of Kos, Greece · 7716 days ago · 21 km deep · 99 km away
- 3.014 km NNW of Datça, Turkey · 7720 days ago · 23 km deep · 100 km away
- 3.321 km S of Mandráki, Greece · 7722 days ago · 11 km deep · 74 km away
- 3.320 km SSE of Kos, Greece · 7723 days ago · 21 km deep · 91 km away
- 3.144 km NNE of Karpathos, Greece · 7727 days ago · 46 km deep · 32 km away
- 3.116 km SSW of ?çmeler, Turkey · 7727 days ago · 31 km deep · 87 km away
- 3.251 km S of Mandráki, Greece · 7729 days ago · 31 km deep · 57 km away
- 3.216 km NE of Datça, Turkey · 7729 days ago · 27 km deep · 99 km away
- 3.761 km NNW of Karpathos, Greece · 7732 days ago · 18 km deep · 78 km away
- 3.519 km ESE of Kos, Greece · 7734 days ago · 16 km deep · 100 km away
- 3.260 km WSW of Émponas, Greece · 7739 days ago · 4 km deep · 47 km away
- 3.342 km SW of Lárdos, Greece · 7742 days ago · 10 km deep · 18 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usp000dxvd. Read Sun, Oct 4, 2026, 2:00 AM UTC.