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Summary:

Magnitude	ML 3.4
Region	GREECE

Date time	2009-01-16 at 23:00:47.8 UTC
Location	39.4 N ; 20.75 E
Depth	5 km
Distances	146 km W Lárisa (pop 128,758 ; local time 01:00 2009-01-17) 31 km S Ioánnina (pop 64,012 ; local time 01:00 2009-01-17) 11 km NW Pappadátai (pop 1,313 ; local time 01:00 2009-01-17)
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Maps:


Global view	Regional view	Local view

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

1514-04-16	21.0	37.7	6.5	many	SOUTHERN GREECE
1544-04-22	22.6	38.8	6.8	many	GREECE
1566-07-11	21.7	39.0	6.5	many	GREECE
1622-05-05	21.0	37.6	6.6	many	SOUTHERN GREECE
1630-07-22	20.9	38.3	6.9	many	GREECE
1633-11-05	21.0	37.6	6.9	many	SOUTHERN GREECE
1636-09-30	20.7	38.0	7.2	520	GREECE
1658-08-24	20.5	38.3	6.8	320	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
1742-02-14	20.6	37.8	6.5	120	IONIAN SEA
1743-02-20	18.8	39.9	7.3	180	SOUTHERN ITALY
1748-05-25	22.2	38.2	6.8	many	GREECE
1759-06-22	23.1	40.7	6.5	many	GREECE
1767-07-11	20.3	38.2	7.2	253	GREECE
1783-03-23	20.5	38.6	7.0	35	GREECE
1785-01-30	21.7	38.2	6.6	38	GREECE
1786-02-05	19.9	39.6	6.6	126	GREECE-ALBANIA BORDER REGION
1804-01-08	21.8	38.3	?	many	GREECE
1817-08-23	22.1	38.3	6.8	many	GREECE
1821-01-06	21.2	37.8	6.5	many	SOUTHERN GREECE
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
1867-02-04	20.4	38.2	7.3	224	GREECE
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
1953-08-12	20.6	38.3	7.2	800	GREECE
1954-04-30	22.3	39.3	7.0	31	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

More information at:

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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