Magnitude 6.3 GREECE
2003 August 14 05:14:55 UTC
Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver
|
Magnitude | 6.3 | |
| Date-Time |
Thursday, August 14, 2003 at 05:14:55 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal Time Thursday, August 14, 2003 at 08:14:55 AM local time at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones |
||
| Location | 39.19N 20.74E | ||
| Depth | 10.0 kilometers | ||
| Region | GREECE | ||
| Reference |
55 km (35 miles) S of Ioannina, Greece 135 km (85 miles) NW of Patras, Greece 150 km (95 miles) WSW of Larisa, Greece 290 km (180 miles) WNW of ATHENS, Greece |
||
| Location Quality | Error estimate: horizontal +/- 8.0 km; depth fixed by location program | ||
|
Location Quality Parameters |
Nst=110, Nph=110, Dmin=520.0 km, Rmss=0.85 sec, Erho=8.0 km, Erzz=0 km, Gp=70.8 degrees | ||
| Source | USGS NEIC (WDCS-D) | ||
| Remarks | At least 50 people injured. Some damage and rockslides on Lefkada. Damage also reported in the Preveza area. Felt on Corfu, Kefallania and Zante. Also felt at Athens and southern Italy. |
|
Tectonic Setting
On a broad scale the tectonics of Greece is controlled by the northward migration of the Arabian and African Plates, and the counterclockwise rotation and westward translation of the Anatolian-Aegean block, relative to a fixed Eurasian Plate. The Anatolian-Aegean block is a lens shaped block that stretches west-to-east from near the west coast of Greece to eastern Turkey, and north-to-south from the Black Sea to the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. Near the Anatolian-Aegean block's northern border, it is moving westward relative to the Eurasian Plate at roughly 3 cm per year. This recent earthquake occurred in northern Greece, a highly seismic and rapidly deforming region. There is a magnitude 5 or larger earthquake about every two years within 60 km of this recent earthquake.
Significant Earthquakes in Greece
|
|
Did You Feel It?
Theoretical P-Wave Travel Times Historical Moment Tensor Solutions Earthquakes: Frequently Asked Questions
|
NB:
The region name is an automatically generated name
from the Flinn-Engdahl (F-E) seismic and geographical regionalization scheme.
The boundaries of
these regions are defined at one-degree intervals and therefore differ from
irregular political boundaries.
More->
