M3.5 earthquake Aegean Sea
A magnitude 3.5 earthquake struck in the Aegean Sea on Wed, May 23, 2007, 12:32 PM GMT+3 (09:32 UTC), 27 km (17 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M3.8 39 km ESE of Sykiá, Greece. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 3.5 (ML, local (Richter)), minor
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2007-05-23 09:32:12 UTC
- Depth
- 27.0 km (16.8 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 39.140° N, 24.180° 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 usp000fcjg. 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
- 59°
- Stations used
- 23
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 28 in the 60 days after this one and 14 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.52 km W of Malakónta, Greece · 7072 days ago · 24 km deep · 91 km away
- 2.612 km NE of Néa Stíra, Greece · 7067 days ago · 35 km deep · 98 km away
- 2.813 km N of Néa Stíra, Greece · 7067 days ago · 37 km deep · 93 km away
- 3.115 km WNW of Skýros, Greece · 7063 days ago · 33 km deep · 28 km away
- 3.532 km ESE of Sárti, Greece · 7060 days ago · 34 km deep · 93 km away
- 2.53 km WNW of Yimnón, Greece · 7057 days ago · 4 km deep · 82 km away
- 2.51 km W of Erétria, Greece · 7057 days ago · 32 km deep · 89 km away
- 2.61 km NE of Malakónta, Greece · 7057 days ago · 29 km deep · 88 km away
- 3.014 km N of Skiáthos, Greece · 7057 days ago · 10 km deep · 60 km away
- 2.99 km NNE of Istiaía, Greece · 7055 days ago · 25 km deep · 87 km away
- 2.71 km SSE of Néa Artáki, Greece · 7052 days ago · 42 km deep · 84 km away
- 3.111 km N of Kými, Greece · 7052 days ago · 31 km deep · 45 km away
- 3.432 km E of Patitírion, Greece · 7049 days ago · 18 km deep · 7 km away
- 3.115 km ESE of Zagorá, Greece · 7049 days ago · 9 km deep · 84 km away
- 3.53 km NE of Skiáthos, Greece · 7049 days ago · 10 km deep · 57 km away
- 2.928 km SSE of Patitírion, Greece · 7046 days ago · 32 km deep · 26 km away
- 3.333 km S of Pefkochóri, Greece · 7044 days ago · 20 km deep · 79 km away
- 3.133 km SSW of Pefkochóri, Greece · 7042 days ago · 30 km deep · 85 km away
- 3.234 km SSW of Pefkochóri, Greece · 7042 days ago · 30 km deep · 84 km away
- 2.828 km NNW of Kými, Greece · 7039 days ago · 33 km deep · 32 km away
- 3.311 km E of Tríkeri, Greece · 7031 days ago · 24 km deep · 84 km away
- 3.14 km WNW of Mantoúdi, Greece · 7031 days ago · 5 km deep · 74 km away
- 2.910 km NW of Mantoúdi, Greece · 7027 days ago · 24 km deep · 75 km away
- 3.3Aegean Sea · 7026 days ago · 21 km deep · 59 km away
- 3.839 km ESE of Sykiá, Greece · 7020 days ago · 45 km deep · 80 km away
- 2.810 km NE of Roviés, Greece · 7016 days ago · 36 km deep · 79 km away
- 3.527 km SSE of Sykiá, Greece · 7016 days ago · 18 km deep · 77 km away
- 3.512 km NE of Mantoúdi, Greece · 7013 days ago · 10 km deep · 60 km away
Before
- 3.311 km ESE of Tríkeri, Greece · 7073 days ago · 23 km deep · 85 km away
- 3.213 km ENE of Istiaía, Greece · 7077 days ago · 24 km deep · 78 km away
- 3.01 km NNE of Istiaía, Greece · 7078 days ago · 25 km deep · 90 km away
- 2.51 km WSW of Néa Lámpsakos, Greece · 7078 days ago · 22 km deep · 93 km away
- 3.540 km SSW of Mýrina, Greece · 7084 days ago · 11 km deep · 78 km away
- 3.19 km SSW of Sykiá, Greece · 7086 days ago · 25 km deep · 94 km away
- 3.018 km N of Kými, Greece · 7088 days ago · 34 km deep · 38 km away
- 3.425 km SSE of Pefkochóri, Greece · 7093 days ago · 29 km deep · 80 km away
- 2.923 km SSE of Patitírion, Greece · 7094 days ago · 38 km deep · 31 km away
- 3.113 km W of Oxílithos, Greece · 7094 days ago · 28 km deep · 66 km away
- 3.324 km ESE of Patitírion, Greece · 7096 days ago · 44 km deep · 9 km away
- 3.121 km N of Skópelos, Greece · 7100 days ago · 2 km deep · 46 km away
- 3.112 km ENE of Istiaía, Greece · 7101 days ago · 10 km deep · 79 km away
- 2.620 km W of Kými, Greece · 7102 days ago · 29 km deep · 60 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usp000fcjg. Read Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 1:33 AM UTC.