The list of earthquakes in Greece shows the largest earthquakes in Greece that occurred in the entire history of observations of the seismic activity of this region.
Content
Tectonic structure
Greece is located in a complex border zone in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea at the junction of the African and Eurasian lithospheric plates, between which a small Aegean plate is located . The northern part of Greece is part of the Eurasian Plate, and the southern is part of the Aegean Plate. The Aegean Plate moves in a southwesterly direction relative to the Eurasian Plate at a speed of 30 mm per year. And the African Plate is slowly sinking under the Aegean Plate at a rate of 40 mm per year. In the north, at the point of contact of the Aegean and Eurasian plates, a divergent border is formed , and in the south - a convergent border , which is referred to as the Aegean arch [1] .
The strongest earthquakes
The strongest earthquakes of Greece in the entire history of observations have always occurred on the southern boundary of the plates, in the so-called Aegean arch [1] . Nevertheless, the equipment did not record a single earthquake with a magnitude greater than 7.2 points. In a place where the African platform plunges under the Aegean, the epicenter of an earthquake is often located at a great depth, more than 50 km, and the magnitude of earthquakes is usually more than 7 points. However, such earthquakes do not carry much damage with them, although they are very well felt [1] .
| date | Time | A place | Latitude | Longitude | Number of victims | Magnitude score | Notes | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 464 BC er | Sparta Earthquake in sparta | 37.08 | 22.43 | more than 20,000 | 7.2 | M s | [2] | |
| 426 BC er | Vorios evvoikos Earthquake in the Gulf of Vororos-Evvoikos | 38.87 | 22.62 | The earthquake caused a strong tsunami in the Gulf of Maliakos | [3] | |||
| 226 BC er | Rhodes Rhodes earthquake | 36.43 | 28.21 | The earthquake destroyed the Colossus of Rhodes | [four] | |||
| July 21, 365 | At about dawn | Crete , Alexandria Earthquake in Greece (365) | 35.07 | 24.95 | ~ 8.0 | The tidal wave caused by the earthquake caused serious damage to the Egyptian city of Alexandria. | [five] | |
| December 856 | Corinth | 37.90 | 22.90 | 45,000 | [6] | |||
| August 8, 1303 | 06:00 | Crete , Alexandria Cretan earthquake (1303) | 35.00 | 27.00 | 10,000 | ~ 8.0 | The earthquake caused serious destruction of the lighthouse of Alexandria | [6] [7] |
| May 3, 1481 | 03:00 | Rhodes Rhodes earthquake (1481) | 36.00 | 28.00 | 30,000 | 7.1 | M s | [eight] |
| February 16, 1810 | 22:15 | Heraklion Crete Cretan Earthquake (1810) | 35.50 | 25.60 | 2000 | 7.5 | M w | [9] |
| April 3, 1881 | 11:30 | Chios , Cesme , Alacati Chios earthquake (1881) | 38.25 | 26.25 | 7866 | 6.5 | M w | [ten] |
| August 11, 1903 | Kythira | four | 7.9 | M s | [eleven] | |||
| November 9, 1905 | 00:06 | Adelphi Earthquake in the aegean sea | 39.11 | 23.97 | 7.4 | M w | [12] | |
| June 26, 1926 | Rhodes | 7.4 | M s | [13] | ||||
| September 26, 1932 | 19:20 | Acanthus The earthquake in Akanf (1932) | 39.80 | 23.80 | 491 | 7.0 | [14] | |
| October 6, 1947 | 22:55 | Messinia Earthquake in southern greece | 36.73 | 21.90 | 7.3 | M w | [15] | |
| August 12, 1953 | 09:24 | Kefalonia , Zakynthos Earthquake in the Ionian Sea (1953) | 38.20 | 20.60 | 476 | 7.2 | M s | [sixteen] |
| April 30, 1954 | Sofades | 39.28 | 22.29 | 6.8 | M s | [17] | ||
| July 9, 1956 | 03:11 | Amorgos Earthquake on Amorgos | 36.90 | 26.00 | 56 | 7.7 | M s Earthquake caused tsunami in the Aegean Sea | [18] [19] |
| April 24, 1957 | 22:10 | Dodecanese Dodecanese Islands earthquake | 36.49 | 28.83 | 7.1 | M w | [20] | |
| April 25, 1957 | 05:25 | Dodecanese Dodecanese Islands earthquake | 36.41 | 28.70 | 7.3 | M w | [21] | |
| July 6, 1965 | , Corinthian Gulf | 6.3 | M w | [22] | ||||
| February 20, 1968 | 00:45 | Earthquake in the aegean sea | 39.36 | 24.96 | 7.2 | M w | [23] | |
| April 8, 1970 | 16:50 | Stirion , Boeotia | 38.30 | 22.68 | 6.3 | M w | [24] | |
| May 5, 1972 | 00:40 | Crete | 35.18 | 23.55 | 6.3 | M w | [25] | |
| September 17, 1972 | 17:07 | Kefalonia | 38.35 | 20.31 | 6.5 | M w | [26] | |
| June 20, 1978 | 23:03 | Thessaloniki The earthquake in Thessaloniki (1978) | 40.74 | 23.23 | 47 | 6.4 | M w | [27] [28] |
| July 9, 1980 | 05:35 | Hair , Magnesia | 39.26 | 22.56 | 6.3 | M w | [29] | |
| February 24, 1981 | 20:53 | Corinthia The earthquake on Alkyonides (1981) | 38.22 | 22.93 | 22 | 6.7 | M s | [30] [31] |
| February 25, 1981 | 04:35 | Corinthia The earthquake on Alkyonides (1981) | 38.13 | 23.14 | 6.4 | M w | [32] | |
| March 4, 1981 | 23:58 | Corinthia The earthquake on Alkyonides (1981) | 38.21 | 23.29 | 6.4 | M w | [33] | |
| December 19, 1981 | 4:10 | Earthquake in the aegean sea | 39.24 | 25.23 | 7.2 | M w | [34] | |
| January 17, 1983 | 14:41 | Kefalonia | 38.03 | 20.23 | 7.0 | M w | [35] | |
| March 24, 1983 | 01:51 | Kefalonia | 38.29 | 20.26 | 6.4 | M w | [36] | |
| September 13, 1986 | 20:24 | Kalamata | 37.07 | 22.18 | 20 | 5.9 | M w | [37] |
| May 13, 1995 | 11:47 | Kozani , Grevena , Western Macedonia | 40.15 | 21.70 | 6,6 | M w | [38] | |
| June 15, 1995 | 03:15 | Ayon , Aheya Earthquake in Aion (1995) | 38.40 | 22.28 | 6.5 | M w | [39] | |
| October 13, 1997 | 16:39 | Ionian Sea Earthquake in southern greece | 36.38 | 22.07 | 6.4 | M w | [40] | |
| September 7, 1999 | 14:56 | Athens Athens earthquake (1999) | 38.11 | 23.60 | 143 | 6.0 | M w | [41] |
| August 14, 2003 | 08:14 | Lefkada Earthquake at the greek-albanian border | 39,16 | 20.61 | 6.3 | M w | [42] | |
| January 8, 2006 | 13:34 | Kythira The earthquake on Kitira (2006) | 36.31 | 23.21 | 6.7 | M w | [43] | |
| January 6, 2008 | 07:14 | Arcadia , Peloponnese Peloponnesian earthquake | 37.22 | 22,69 | 6.2 | M w | [44] | |
| February 14, 2008 | 12:09 | Ionian Sea Earthquake in southern greece | 36.50 | 21.67 | 6.9 | M w | [45] | |
| February 14, 2008 | 14:08 | Ionian Sea Earthquake in southern greece | 36.35 | 21.86 | 6.5 | M w | [46] | |
| February 20, 2008 | 20:27 | Ionian Sea Earthquake in southern greece | 36.29 | 21.77 | 6.2 | M w | [47] | |
| June 8, 2008 | 12:25 | Peloponnese Peloponnesian earthquake (2008) | 38.03 | 21.46 | 2 | 6.4 | M w | [48] |
| July 15, 2008 | 06:26 | Dodecanese Earthquake on the Dodecanese Islands (2008) | 35.80 | 27.86 | one | 6.4 | M w | [49] |
| July 1, 2009 | 12:30 | Crete Earthquake in the mediterranean sea | 34,16 | 25.47 | 6.4 | M w | [50] | |
| April 1, 2011 | 16:29 | Crete Earthquake in the Kasos Strait | 35.66 | 26.56 | 6.0 | M w | [51] | |
| June 10, 2012 | 15:44 | Dodecanese Dodecanese Islands earthquake | 36.42 | 28.88 | 6.0 | M w | [52] | |
| October 12, 2013 | 16:11 | Crete Earthquake in the strait of Antikitir | 35.51 | 23.25 | 6,6 | M w | [53] | |
| January 26, 2014 | 15:55 | Kefalonia Earthquake on kefalonia | 38.20 | 20.45 | 6.1 | M w | [54] | |
| February 3, 2014 | 05:08 | Kefalonia Earthquake on kefalonia | 38.26 | 20.39 | 6.0 | M w | [55] | |
| May 24, 2014 | 12:25 | Lemnos Earthquake in the Aegean Sea (2014) | 38.11 | 23.60 | one | 6.9 | M w | [56] |
| November 17, 2015 | 09:10 | Lefkada Earthquake on Lefkasa | 38.67 | 20.60 | 6.5 | M w | [57] | |
| June 12, 2017 | 15:28 | Lesbos Earthquake on Lesbos | 38.93 | 26.37 | 6.3 | M w | [58] | |
| July 21, 2017 | 01:31 | Kos Earthquake in the Aegean Sea (2017) | 36.93 | 27.41 | 2 [59] | 6,6 | M w | [60] |
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Tectonic Summary of Greece (not available link) . USGS (March 29, 2010). The appeal date is July 26, 2010. Archived July 29, 2010.
- ↑ Armijo, R., Lyon-Caen, H., and Papanastassiou, D. A possible normal-fault rupture for the 464 BC Sparta earthquake (Eng.) . - 1991. - 9 May ( vol. 351 , iss. 6322 ). - P. 137–139 . - DOI : 10.1038 / 351137a0 . - .
- ↑ Antonopoulos, John. The Tsunami of 426 BC in the Maliakos Gulf, Eastern Greece (Eng.) // Natural Hazards. - 1992. - January ( vol. 5 , iss. 1 ). - P. 83–93 . - DOI : 10.1007 / BF00127141 .
- Ido Guidoboni E., Ferrari G., Mariotti D., Comastri A., Tarabusi G. & Valensise G. Catalog of Strong Earthquakes in Italy 461 BC - 1997 and Mediterranean area 760 BC - 1500 (Italian) . The appeal date is July 25, 2010.
- Ros Stiros, SC The AD 365: a review of historical and archaeological data (Eng.) // Journal of Structural Geology. - 2001. - 3 February ( vol. 23 , iss. 2–3 ). - P. 545-562 . - DOI : 10.1016 / S0191-8141 (00) 00118-8 . - .
- 2 1 2 IISEENET (Information Network of Earthquake disaster prevention technologies) - Search Page
- Ad Papadopolous GA, Daskalaki E., Fokaefs A. & Giraleas N. Tsunami hazards in the Eastern Mediterranean: Strong earthquakes and tsunamis in the East Hellenic Arc and Trench system (eng.) // Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. - 2007. - Vol. 7 - P. 57–64 . - DOI : 10.5194 / nhess-7-57-2007 .
- ↑ Comments for the Significant Earthquake (English) . National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) . NOAA . The appeal date is July 24, 2010.
- ↑ Ambraseys NN , Melville CP, Adams RD The seismicity of Egypt, arabia and the Red Sea: a historical review . - Cambridge University Press, 1994. - P. 63. - ISBN 978-0-521-39120-7 .
- Tin Altinok Y., Alpar B., Özer N. & Gazioglu C. 1881 and 1949 earthquakes at the Chios-Cesme Strait (Aegean Sea ) // Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. - 2005. - Vol. 5 , iss. 5 - P. 717-725 . - DOI : 10.5194 / nhess-5-717-2005 .
- Ad Papadopoulos, GA; Vassilopoulou, A. Historical and Archaeological Evolution of the Earths; and Cunamis Felt in the Kythira Strait, Greece // Critical Decade / Edited by Gerald T. Hebenstreit. - Springer Netherlands, 2001. P. 130. - 282 p. - (Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 18). - ISBN 978-1-4020-0203-8 .
- ↑ M 7.4 - Aegean Sea (English) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- ↑ Ambraseys, NN & Adams, RD The Rhodes earthquake of June 26, 1926 (Eng.) // Journal of Seismology. - Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998. - Vol. 2 , iss. 3 , no. 267–292 . - ISSN 1383-4649 . - DOI : 10.1023 / A: 1009706415417 .
- ↑ Pavlides SB, Tranos MD : Aergean (1932) and Agios Efstratios (1968) (Eng.) // Journal of Structural Geology. - 1991. - Vol. 13 , iss. 2 - P. 205-214 . - DOI : 10.1016 / 0191-8141 (91) 90067-S .
- 7.3 M 7.3 - southern Greece (Eng.) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- ↑ Papazachos, BS Large seismic faults in the Hellenic Arc (Eng.) // Annals of Geophysics. - Bologna, Italy: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), 1996. - Vol. 39 , no. 5 - P. 891–903 . - ISSN 2037-416X . - DOI : 10.4401 / ag-4023 .
- ↑ Papathanassiou G., Valkaniotis S., Pavlides S. Applying the INQUA scale to the Sofades 1954, Central Greece, earthquake (Eng.) // Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece vol. XXXVII, 2007 Proceedings of the 11th International Congress, Athens, May, 2007. - P. 1226-1333 .
- ↑ Comments for the Significant Earthquake (English) . National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) . NOAA . The appeal date is July 26, 2010.
- ↑ M 7.7 - Dodecanese Islands, Greece (English) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- 7.1 M 7.1 - Dodecanese Islands, Greece (English) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- 7.3 M 7.3 - Dodecanese Islands, Greece (English) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- ↑ Rodolfo Console, Giuseppe Falcone, Vassilis Karakostas, Maura Murru, Eleftheria Papadimitriou, David Rhoades. Corinth Gulf, Greece, fault system (Eng.) // JGR: Solid Earth. - American Geophysical Union, 2013. - July 10 ( vol. 118 , iss. 7 ). - P. 3655-3673 . - DOI : 10.1002 / jgrb.50277 .
- 7.2 M 7.2 - Aegean Sea (English) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- 6.3 M 6.3 - Greece (Eng.) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- 6.3 M 6.3 - Crete, Greece (English) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- 6.5 M 6.5 - Greece (Eng.) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- ↑ The Salonica (Thessaloniki) Earthquake of June 20, 1978 (Eng.) . CALTECH (19 February 2008). The circulation date is December 1, 2010. Archived June 20, 2010
- ↑ M 6.4 - Greece (Eng.) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- 6.3 M 6.3 - Greece (Eng.) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- ↑ Comments for the Significant Earthquake (English) . National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) . NOAA . The appeal date is October 1, 2013.
- ↑ M 6.7 - Greece (Eng.) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- ↑ M 6.4 - Greece (Eng.) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- ↑ M 6.4 - Greece (Eng.) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- 7.2 M 7.2 - Aegean Sea (English) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- ↑ M 7.0 - Greece (Eng.) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- ↑ M 6.4 - Greece (Eng.) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- ↑ Kalamata Greece 1986 (CAR) (English) . gemecd The appeal date is March 20, 2019.
- ↑ M 6.6 - Greece (Eng.) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- 6.5 M 6.5 - Greece (Eng.) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- ↑ M 6.4 - southern Greece (English) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- ↑ M 6.0 - Greece (Eng.) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- 6.3 M 6.3 - Greece-Albania border region (English) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- ↑ M 6.7 - southern Greece (Eng.) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- 6.2 M 6.2 - southern Greece (English) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- ↑ M 6.9 - southern Greece (Eng.) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- 6.5 M 6.5 - southern Greece (Eng.) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- 6.2 M 6.2 - southern Greece (English) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- ↑ M 6.4 - southern Greece (English) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- ↑ M 6.4 - Dodecanese Islands, Greece (Eng.) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- ↑ M 6.4 - Crete, Greece (English) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- ↑ M 6.0 - Crete, Greece (English) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- ↑ M 6.0 - Dodecanese Islands, Greece (Eng.) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- ↑ M 6.6 - 31km W of Platanos, Greece (Eng.) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- 6.1 M 6.1 - 1km ENE of Lixourion, Greece (English) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- ↑ M 6.0 - 7km NNW of Lixourion, Greece (Eng.) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- ↑ M 6.9 - 22km SSW of Kamariotissa, Greece (Eng.) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- 6.5 M 6.5 - 10km WSW of Nidri, Greece (Eng.) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- 6.3 M 6.3 - 5km S of Plomarion, Greece (Eng.) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- Itude Magnitude 6.7 quake off Turkish and Greek coasts kills two: USGS (Eng.) . AOL (July 20, 2017). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
- ↑ M 6.6 - 11km ENE of Kos, Greece (Eng.) . National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The appeal date is May 18, 2018.
Links
- Map of the earthquakes of Greece (not available link) Checked May 18, 2018.