Greece earthquakes

M5.3 earthquake 69 km SSW of Koróni, Greece

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck 69 km SSW of Koróni, Greece on Wed, Feb 20, 2008, 1:15 AM GMT+2 (23:15 UTC), 22 km (14 mi) below the surface.

A larger quake followed: M6.2 58 km SSW of Koróni, Greece. This one was a foreshock.

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The earthquake

Magnitude: 5.3 (Mwc, centroid moment), moderate
Magnitude from: USGS National Earthquake Information Center
Local time: Wed, Feb 20, 2008, 1:15 AM GMT+2
UTC: 2008-02-19 23:15:40 UTC
Depth: 22.0 km (13.7 mi), shallow
Epicenter: 36.190° N, 21.770° E
Region: Greece
Felt reports: 4
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
5.3	Mwc, centroid moment	USGS National Earthquake Information Center	Preferred · Reviewed
5.35	Mw, moment	ISC-GEM global catalog	Final · ±0.1
5.4	Mwc, centroid moment	Global CMT project	Preliminary

What happened

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

Felt at Kalamata and Peuki.

From the USGS event page for usp000fz9c. U.S. Geological Survey text and figures are in the public domain.

Did you feel it?

4 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was III, weak 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 254°, dip 74°, rake -5°
Nodal plane 2: Strike 346°, dip 85°, rake -164°

How well it is located

Reviewed by a seismologist.

Station coverage gap: 47°
Stations used: 397

Nearest places

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

Nearby

Within 100 km, magnitude 2.3 and up: at least 199 in the 60 days after this one and 61 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 usp000fz9c (also filed as us2008nqb7, gcmtc200802192315a, gcmt20080219231540, iscgem13214423). Read Fri, Oct 2, 2026, 7:52 PM UTC.