M3.1 earthquake 25 km NW of Fry, Greece
A magnitude 3.1 earthquake struck 25 km NW of Fry, Greece on Sat, Aug 30, 2008, 1:15 PM GMT+3 (10:15 UTC), 8 km (5 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.5 54 km SSE of Astypálaia, Greece. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 3.1 (Md, duration), minor
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2008-08-30 10:15:23 UTC
- Depth
- 8.0 km (5.0 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 35.550° N, 26.690° 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 usp000gg06. 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
- 184°, poorly surrounded by stations
- Stations used
- 7
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 10 in the 60 days after this one and 41 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.730 km ENE of Palekastro, Greece · 6608 days ago · 6 km deep · 31 km away
- 2.935 km N of Palekastro, Greece · 6608 days ago · 40 km deep · 42 km away
- 3.263 km N of Palekastro, Greece · 6607 days ago · 44 km deep · 41 km away
- 3.139 km S of Fry, Greece · 6605 days ago · 27 km deep · 61 km away
- 3.015 km ESE of Karpathos, Greece · 6603 days ago · 16 km deep · 62 km away
- 3.4Dodecanese Islands, Greece · 6596 days ago · 117 km deep · 94 km away
- 3.722 km SE of Fry, Greece · 6593 days ago · 49 km deep · 48 km away
- 3.716 km SE of Palekastro, Greece · 6554 days ago · 6 km deep · 60 km away
- 3.337 km NW of Fry, Greece · 6554 days ago · 28 km deep · 12 km away
- 4.554 km SSE of Astypálaia, Greece · 6551 days ago · 143 km deep · 66 km away
Before
- 2.859 km N of Palekastro, Greece · 6609 days ago · 37 km deep · 36 km away
- 3.529 km E of Palekastro, Greece · 6609 days ago · 59 km deep · 39 km away
- 3.436 km ESE of Karpathos, Greece · 6609 days ago · 19 km deep · 84 km away
- 2.924 km SSW of Fry, Greece · 6609 days ago · 17 km deep · 37 km away
- 3.330 km NNW of Fry, Greece · 6610 days ago · 25 km deep · 14 km away
- 3.129 km S of Palekastro, Greece · 6611 days ago · 5 km deep · 79 km away
- 2.854 km N of Karpathos, Greece · 6612 days ago · 42 km deep · 69 km away
- 3.032 km ENE of Karpathos, Greece · 6614 days ago · 15 km deep · 79 km away
- 3.067 km N of Palekastro, Greece · 6615 days ago · 55 km deep · 43 km away
- 3.155 km NNW of Karpathos, Greece · 6615 days ago · 27 km deep · 49 km away
- 3.030 km WSW of Émponas, Greece · 6616 days ago · 28 km deep · 99 km away
- 3.142 km ESE of Ierápetra, Greece · 6617 days ago · 23 km deep · 95 km away
- 3.325 km SSW of Mandráki, Greece · 6617 days ago · 29 km deep · 99 km away
- 3.525 km S of Mandráki, Greece · 6617 days ago · 36 km deep · 99 km away
- 3.625 km SW of Mandráki, Greece · 6618 days ago · 16 km deep · 100 km away
- 3.525 km S of Mandráki, Greece · 6618 days ago · 32 km deep · 100 km away
- 3.024 km NNW of Karpathos, Greece · 6618 days ago · 2 km deep · 41 km away
- 3.217 km NE of Eloúnda, Greece · 6618 days ago · 16 km deep · 80 km away
- 2.913 km NNW of Karpathos, Greece · 6621 days ago · 22 km deep · 43 km away
- 3.532 km SE of Fry, Greece · 6622 days ago · 5 km deep · 58 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usp000gg06. Read Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 10:39 PM UTC.