Magnitude 6.3 - GREECE
2008 June 08 12:25:30 UTC
Earthquake Details
Magnitude | 6.3 |
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Location | 38.000°N, 21.468°E |
Depth | 16 km (9.9 miles) set by location program |
Region | GREECE |
Distances | 35 km (20 miles) SSW of Patras, Greece 120 km (75 miles) NNW of Kalamata, Greece 195 km (120 miles) W of ATHENS, Greece 195 km (120 miles) SSE of Ioannina, Greece |
Location Uncertainty | horizontal +/- 2.9 km (1.8 miles); depth fixed by location program |
Parameters | NST=554, Nph=554, Dmin=6.5 km, Rmss=1.36 sec, Gp= 25°, M-type=moment magnitude (Mw), Version=Q |
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Event ID | us2008taaw |
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Earthquake Summary
Felt Reports
Two people killed, at least 240 injured and at least 1,156 buildings damaged or destroyed in Achaia and Ileia. Felt (VIII) at Kato Achaia; (VII) at Patria and Rion; (VI) at Agrinion; (V) at Corinth, Tripolis and Zakynthos; (IV) at Agia Paraskevi, Aigina, Argostolion, Athens, Ioannina, Kallithea, Karditsa, Kifisia, Preveza, Trikala and Volos; (III) at Amarousion, Galatsion, Glifadha, Kalamakion, Khalandrion, Larisa, Nea Erithraia, Nea Ionia, Nea Smirni, Nikaia, Palaion Faliron, Piraeus and Voula; (II) at Aigaleo, Chania and Korydallos. Felt in most parts of Greece. Also felt at Tirana, Albania; Cosenza, Italy; Ohrid, Macedonia.
Tectonic Summary
The earth's crust and lithosphere in the eastern Mediterranean constitute a broad boundary region between three major tectonic plates, the Eurasia, Africa, and Arabia plates. The motions of these major plates drive smaller microplates, and it is the shapes and motions of these smaller plates that determine the locations and focal mechanisms of most intraplate earthquakes in the region.
The earthquake of June 8, 2008, was generated by stresses resulting from the motion of the small Aegean Sea plate southwest with respect to the Eurasia plate with a velocity of about 30 mm/y. The boundary between the Aegean plate and the Eurasia plate in central Greece is diffuse. Seismicity is concentrated in east-trending and northeast-trending zones of deformation. The east-trending zones are characterized by predominantly normal faulting. The northeast-trending zones are characterized by predominately strike-slip faulting earthquakes. The focal-mechanism of the earthquake of June 8 is consistent with the shock having been caused by strike-slip faulting similar to that occurring within the northeast-trending zones. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the largest crustal earthquakes of central Greece have had magnitudes of about 7.2.
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