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Summary:

Magnitude	ML 2.5
Region	GREECE

Date time	2009-01-15 at 17:38:06.1 UTC
Location	40.15 N ; 21.83 E
Depth	5 km
Distances	76 km NW Lárisa (pop 128,758 ; local time 19:38 2009-01-15) 17 km S Kozáni (pop 36,481 ; local time 19:38 2009-01-15) 2 km S Aianí (pop 2,119 ; local time 19:38 2009-01-15)
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References for tectonic plate boundaries:
Bird, P. (2003) An updated digital model of plate boundaries,
Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 4(3), 1027.

Google maps view: Seismicity from the previous 7 days in the area

Regional instrumental seismicity

This seismicity maps have been generated by concatenating the ISC catalogue (since 1964), the EMSC Euro-Med Bulletin catalogue and the EMSC Real Time catalogue. Therefore, they show the seismicity from 1964 until the earthquake occurrence.

Regional deadly earthquakes from year 1500 to 2000

Date

Long.

Lat.

Mag.

Death

Location

1544-04-22	22.6	38.8	6.8	many	GREECE
1566-07-11	21.7	39.0	6.5	many	GREECE
1674-01-01	20.0	39.5	6.5	200	GREECE-ALBANIA BORDER REGION
1701-03-19	19.8	40.2	6.4	300	ALBANIA
1704-11-22	20.7	38.7	6.6	34	GREECE
1723-02-22	20.7	38.6	7.0	many	GREECE
1759-06-22	23.1	40.7	6.5	many	GREECE
1783-03-23	20.5	38.6	7.0	35	GREECE
1786-02-05	19.9	39.6	6.6	126	GREECE-ALBANIA BORDER REGION
1825-01-19	20.7	38.8	6.8	58	GREECE
1851-10-12	19.7	40.7	6.6	2000	ALBANIA
1851-10-17	20.0	40.7	?	400	GREECE-ALBANIA BORDER REGION
1854-07-30	20.2	39.9	6.4	many	GREECE-ALBANIA BORDER REGION
1866-01-02	19.5	40.4	6.5	60	ALBANIA
1870-08-01	22.6	38.5	6.8	117	GREECE
1894-04-20	23.0	38.6	6.7	255	GREECE
1894-04-27	23.0	38.7	7.2	255	GREECE
1895-05-14	20.5	39.4	6.6	many	GREECE-ALBANIA BORDER REGION
1909-06-15	22.2	39.1	5.7	36	GREECE
1920-11-26	20.0	40.3	6.3	200	GREECE-ALBANIA BORDER REGION
1930-11-21	19.6	40.2	6.0	35	ALBANIA
1930-12-02	19.6	40.3	5.0	25	ALBANIA
1931-01-28	20.7	40.6	5.9	100	GREECE-ALBANIA BORDER REGION
1931-03-08	22.5	41.3	6.7	35	FYR OF MACEDONIA REGION
1932-09-26	23.8	40.5	7.0	491	GREECE
1932-09-29	23.2	41.0	6.2	318	GREECE-BULGARIA BORDER REGION
1942-08-27	20.4	41.6	5.9	43	ALBANIA-FYR OF MACEDONIA BDR REG
1954-04-30	22.3	39.3	7.0	31	GREECE
1978-06-20	23.3	40.6	6.5	45	GREECE
1995-06-15	22.3	38.4	6.5	26	GREECE

Source: T. Utsu ; International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology; vol. A; 691-718

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National Observatory of Athens, Geodynamic Institute Athens, Greece

Department of Geophysics, University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki, Greece

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National Observatory of Athens, Geodynamic Institute, Athens, Greece (NOA)

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