Greece earthquakes

M5.7 earthquake 15 km N of Lixoúri, Greece

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck 15 km N of Lixoúri, Greece on Sun, Mar 25, 2007, 4:57 PM GMT+3 (13:57 UTC), 15 km (9 mi) below the surface.

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The earthquake

Magnitude: 5.7 (Mwb, body-wave moment), moderate
Magnitude from: USGS National Earthquake Information Center
Local time: Sun, Mar 25, 2007, 4:57 PM GMT+3
UTC: 2007-03-25 13:57:58 UTC
Depth: 15.0 km (9.3 mi), shallow
Epicenter: 38.340° N, 20.420° E
Region: Greece
Felt reports: 15
Strongest shaking: VI, strong shaking
Tsunami flag: No
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

Magnitude estimates

Different scales measure different things and differ by a few tenths. The USGS marks one as preferred, and it is the one this page uses.

Mag.	Scale	Computed by	Notes
5.7	Mwb, body-wave moment	USGS National Earthquake Information Center	Preferred · Reviewed
5.74	Mw, moment	ISC-GEM global catalog	Final · ±0.1
5.7	Mwc, centroid moment	Global CMT project	Preliminary

Deaths and damage

From NOAA NCEI’s Significant Earthquake Database (record 7484), matched to this event by time and place.

Damage: Limited (under about $1 million)
Houses destroyed: Few (about 1 to 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.

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What happened

The USGS’s account of the effects of this earthquake.

Some buildings slightly damaged (VI) and rockslides occurred on some roads at Argostolion, Kefallinia. Felt at Igoumenitsa and Ioannina. Also felt at Karousades, Corfu and Sami, Kefallinia. Also felt on Ithaki and Poros. Felt (III) at Brindisi, Catania, Lecce and Soverato, Italy.

From the USGS event page for usp000f7cx. U.S. Geological Survey text and figures are in the public domain.

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: 21.5% of gravity
Peak ground velocity: 2.4 cm/s
Map: Automatic

USGS ShakeMap: estimated shaking intensity around the epicenter — Estimated shaking intensity. Map: USGS ShakeMap.

Did you feel it?

15 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was VI, strong shaking.

Fault motion and ground failure

How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.

Faulting: Strike-slip
Nodal plane 1: Strike 30°, dip 65°, rake 164°
Nodal plane 2: Strike 127°, dip 75°, rake 26°

How well it is located

Reviewed by a seismologist.

Station coverage gap: 35°
Stations used: 514

Nearest places

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

Nearby

Within 100 km, magnitude 2.7 and up: at least 199 in the 60 days after this one and 10 in the 30 days before it.

After

The first 60 of at least 199.

Before

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Sources

From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usp000f7cx (also filed as us2007aibf, gcmtc200703251357a, gcmt20070325135758, iscgem11704428, atlas20070325135758). Read Sun, Oct 4, 2026, 11:44 PM UTC.