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2012-01-26 Mw 5.3 DODECANESE ISLANDS, GREECE

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Magnitude	Mw 5.3
Region	DODECANESE ISLANDS, GREECE
Date time	2012-01-26 04:24:59.0 UTC
Location	36.07 N ; 25.07 E
Depth	14 km
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Witness location : Nea Alikarnassos (Greece) (82 km S from epicenter)

Moderately strong shake with to sound. It had a pretty long duration though, enough to wake us up and get alerted.

Witness location : Nea Alikarnassos (Greece) (82 km S from epicenter)

The earthquake wake up me and my wife. The bilding moving about a minute but didn't any damage, thank God

Witness location : Iraklion (Greece) (82 km S from epicenter)

30 seconds at least

Witness location : Iraklion (Greece) (82 km S from epicenter)

i get the goosebump for 1 or 2 sec

Witness location : Iraklion (Greece) (82 km S from epicenter)

it lasted for enough seconds ( i guess 20 sec),,, and after than less a minute i felt the bed trembling for 2-3 sec

Witness location : Iraklion (Greece) (82 km S from epicenter)

In the biggining the movement was week and later it got strong.

Witness location : Iraklion (Greece) (82 km S from epicenter)

I would not notice it if I did not hear the door of the cupboard knocking the frame

Witness location : Iraklion (Greece) (82 km S from epicenter)

There were a great many aftershocks which is unusual here in crete, usually we have one earthquake then nothing for several weeks/months. There has been significant (felt) earthquakes everyday since, a great cause for concern I think, the media are not relaying any information to the public, I think with the current economic crisis they do not want to lose valuable tourism, there have been ludicrous reports in the press that it is because the sun is too hot (!?) and also it is earthquake "season". People are becoming very concerned as the quakes are coming very regularly & fairly strong also I can see from your data that there are a great many more small quakes happenning that we can not feel, I am no expert but it seems clear that something is afoot & I think people should be warned to be prepared for a larger more significant quake as seems to be the pattern following lots of small tremors.

Witness location : Iraklion (Greece) (82 km S from epicenter)

it woke us up but we were not scared or paniced

Witness location : Iraklion (Greece) (82 km S from epicenter)

It was rather short, just a few seconds, felt it for maybe 10-15 seconds.

Witness location : Iraklion (Greece) (82 km S from epicenter)

strong but short

Witness location : Iraklion (Greece) (82 km S from epicenter)

I woke up early (06.00 local time) in order to study for a morning exam and about 6.25 everything started to rattle. It was rather strong and it lasted between 10-15 seconds (I didn't exactly count). It was felt by my landlord and his family who woke up immediatelly.

Witness location : Iraklion (Greece) (82 km S from epicenter)

Very noticeable but short in duration. A loud rumbling noise was heard a split second before feeling the effects of the quake. Many dogs around the neighbourhood started barking.

Witness location : Iraklion (Greece) (82 km S from epicenter)

i woke seconds before earthquake, as i heard a quite strong gust of wind...all previous times never happened that...

Witness location : Iraklion (Greece) (82 km S from epicenter)

no

Witness location : Iraklion (Greece) (82 km S from epicenter)

Strong P-wave, ascending for 4 secs. high frequency trembling.
S-wave soft, almost unnoticable. Proximity of the epicenter probably the cause of non- easily noticable S-waves.

Witness location : Gazi (Greece) (83 km S from epicenter)

It woke me up. Seemed to be short or may be I missed the beginning. Did not feel swaying like some other times, just trembling.

Witness location : Gouves (Greece) (87 km S from epicenter)

Sounded at first like a gust of wind that kept growing louder. Swaying was increasing as time went by and feeling of the event lasted no more than 15". It felt like two events cojoined (like it had a smaller, followed by a larger peak). Our dog was uneasy during the event, gasping and panting but did not howl.

Witness location : Rethimnon (Greece) (95 km SW from epicenter)

I Think it had very short duration.

Witness location : Akrotiri (Greece) (105 km SW from epicenter)

Seemed to last for about 10 to 15 seconds.

Witness location : Georgioupoli (Greece) (107 km SW from epicenter)

it was like the earthquake before (5,2) but not so strong and not for 4 seconds, it lastet 2 seconds

Witness location : Georgioupoli (Greece) (107 km SW from epicenter)

it sounds like thunder, but in western direction there was thunder and lightning and this was approaching us.

Witness location : Khania (Greece) (113 km SW from epicenter)

Both my daughter and I felt it.  Both our beds shook quite hard and doors and windows rattled.  We were both already awake.  Cats (2) didn't seem to react so to begin with I thought I was dreaming.  Only when I went to get my daughter up for school ten minutes later did she confirm my suspicion.  My husband and son both slept through it.  No damage as far as I am aware, certainly none to our house, which is an old stone building so has seen many of these in its lifetime.

Witness location : Khania (Greece) (113 km SW from epicenter)

Πάνω από 50 σεισμοί από το ίδιο σημείο μέσα σε 12 ώρες είναι κάπως, πως να το θέσω..., φανταχτερά ανησυχητικό. Όχι;

Witness location : Khania (Greece) (113 km SW from epicenter)

None

Witness location : Khania (Greece) (113 km SW from epicenter)

I was awaken from a deep sleep at about 630am. The sound of the things in the room, shelves creeking, with a rumbling sound, the cement walls were creeking, lasted a few seconds. Once out of bed I then heard thunder, and also airplane taking off at the airport. 2 minutes later, it started to pour, with more loud thunder.

Witness location : Khania (Greece) (113 km SW from epicenter)

LASTED ABOUT 5sec

Witness location : Agios Nikolaos (Greece) (114 km SE from epicenter)

Woke us up. Nothing serious

Witness location : Foinikas (Greece) (114 km SW from epicenter)

A definite north-south swaying of about three times. Followed unmistakenly by another one about 20 minutes later.

Witness location : Kolymvari (Greece) (130 km SW from epicenter)

i was in bed and the house was shaking for seconds. before i heard noises like somethings  is clapping against the house. than i could hear something like squeezing and thannthe movement started to be sensedfor seconds.

Witness location : Agia Varvara (Greece) (247 km NW from epicenter)

THIS QUAKE WAS VERY FAR FROM ME BUT I WAS AWAKE AND FELT A LITTLE TREMBLE AND THE HERD IT ON TV THAT IT WAS BIG AND THE EPIE CENTER IS IN KRITH GREECE.