Light mag. 3.5 earthquake - 72 km south of İzmir, Turkey, Greece, on Saturday, 31 Oct 2020 5:32 pm (GMT +2) -

This quake was likely an aftershock of the 6.7 quake Aegean Sea, 17 km northeast of Karlovasi, Samos, North Aegean, Greece, 30 Oct 2020 1:51 pm (GMT +2), which had occurred 1 day 4 hours earlier.
Light mag. 3.5 earthquake - 72 km south of İzmir, Turkey, Greece, on Saturday, 31 Oct 2020 5:32 pm (GMT +2)

Light magnitude 3.5 earthquake at 14 km depth

31 Oct 15:40 UTC: First to report: EMSC after 7 minutes.
31 Oct 15:41: Magnitude recalculated from 3.4 to 3.3. Hypocenter depth recalculated from 7.0 to 2.0 km (from 4.3 to 1.2 mi). Epicenter location corrected by 5.7 km (3.6 mi) towards ENE.
31 Oct 15:42: Hypocenter depth recalculated from 2.0 to 5.0 km (from 1.2 to 3.1 mi).
31 Oct 16:01: Now using data updates from NOA
Date & time: 31 Oct 2020 15:32:48 UTC -
Local time at epicenter: Saturday, 31 Oct 2020 5:32 pm (GMT +2)
Magnitude: 3.5
Depth: 14.0 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude: 37.8085°N / 26.8277°E (Greece)
Nearest volcano: Akyarlar (104 km / 65 mi)
Nearby towns and cities:
1 km (0 mi) ENE of Agios Konstantinos (pop: 368) --> See nearby quakes!
11 km (7 mi) E of Karlovasi (pop: 6,710) --> See nearby quakes!
11 km (7 mi) NW of Mytilinioi (pop: 1,980) --> See nearby quakes!
38 km (24 mi) W of Kusadasi (Turkey) (pop: 63,200) --> See nearby quakes!
43 km (27 mi) S of Seferihisar (Turkey) (pop: 19,600) --> See nearby quakes!
50 km (31 mi) WSW of Selçuk (Turkey) (pop: 29,100) --> See nearby quakes!
56 km (35 mi) SSW of Menderes (Turkey) (pop: 22,000) --> See nearby quakes!
60 km (38 mi) NW of Didim (Turkey) (pop: 26,000) --> See nearby quakes!
60 km (38 mi) SW of Torbalı (Turkey) (pop: 50,300) --> See nearby quakes!
273 km (169 mi) E of Athens (pop: 664,000) --> See nearby quakes!
95 km (59 mi) SE of Chios Island (pop: 32,400) --> See nearby quakes!
40 km (25 mi) NNW of Agathonisi Island (pop: 150) --> See nearby quakes!
Weather at epicenter at time of quake:
Clear Sky 21°C (70 F), humidity: 64%, wind: 4 m/s (8 kts) from NNW
Primary data source: NOA (National Observatory of Athens)
Estimated released energy: 1.1 x 1010 joules (3.12 megawatt hours, equivalent to 2.68 tons of TNT) More info
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Data for the same earthquake reported by different agencies

Info: The more agencies report about the same quake and post similar data, the more confidence you can have in the data. It takes normally up to a few hours until earthquake parameters are calculated with near-optimum precision.
MagnitudeDepthLocationSource
M 3.514 km38 Km W of Kusadasi, GreeceNOA
M 3.46.8 kmSisam Adasi (aegean Sea), GreeceKOERI-RETMC
M 3.35 kmDodecanese Islands, GreeceEMSC

User reports for this quake (2)

User reports estimate the perceived ground shaking intensity according to the MMI (Modified Mercalli Intensity) scale.
Georgioupoli, Crete (355.5 km SW of epicenter) [Map] / Weak shaking (MMI III) / complex motion difficult to describe / 10-15 s
37.1 km E of epicenter [Map] / not felt
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