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2008-07-15 Mw 6.4 DODECANESE ISLANDS, GREECE

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Magnitude	Mw 6.4
Region	DODECANESE ISLANDS, GREECE
Date time	2008-07-15 03:26:35.7 UTC
Location	35.96 N ; 27.86 E
Depth	60 km
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Witness location : Malon (Greece) (30 km NE from epicenter)

quiet a severe shock but as I live in an older house it withstood it well.

Witness location : Soroni (Greece) (47 km N from epicenter)

At first 5sec of rummbling sound then a side to side shake! MILD the first 2-3seconds then MODERATE for at least 5 seconds !!!!

Witness location : 2 Km N Falirakion (Greece) (56 km NE from epicenter)

First somekind murmur, then somekind trembling or vibration and after that whole house pounded or thumbed very heavily and  irregularly. It lasted maybe 30 secs. I don't know exactly because I woke up and try to stand. It was a very very terrifying experience!

Witness location : Ialisos (Greece) (56 km NE from epicenter)

2 quakes directly behind each others with a very little but noticable break. second part was much stronger than first part.

Witness location : Koskinou (Greece) (59 km NE from epicenter)

Ruined building collapsed further

Witness location : Koskinou (Greece) (59 km NE from epicenter)

Lange beving die wel zeker 45 seconden heeft geduurd met een enorm lawaai. Gekke is dat hoewel ik nooit een beving had meegemaakt meteen wist dat dit een zware aardbeving was.

Witness location : 4 Km N Ialisos (Greece) (60 km NE from epicenter)

floor in hotel lobby was rised/broken

Witness location : Rodos (Greece) (62 km NE from epicenter)

The reason why I chose to write to you is the lightning we saw one day prior to the earthquake off the coast of the city of Rhodes. We were having dinner in our hotel veranda (Hotel Mediterranean, facing the Mediterranean side of the island) and saw orange-reddish lightnings occur at about 21:00 hours towards the Turkish coast above the sea. The sky was perfectly clear and we observed no clouds for the full 3 weeks we spent in Rhodes. There was some accompanying faint thunder too. It all lasted a few minutes. I spend most of summers in the same region and have no recollections of lightnings or thunders occuring during the summer months.

Witness location : Rodos (Greece) (62 km NE from epicenter)

felt very much like the January 2002 (or 2003, not sure) earthquake (epicentre west of Rhodes, magnitude around 6.5)

Witness location : Karpathos (Greece) (77 km SW from epicenter)

very intensiv and long,very noisy... I awoke because my body was shaking in the bed and of the noise. after the earthquake the environment was absolutley quiet. cats returned after some hours back home. Actually I'm not sure about this but i think most earthquakes we had in Karpathos happened by full moon or up to full moon...

Witness location : Karpathos (Greece) (77 km SW from epicenter)

No information from the travelcompani(Apollo Sweden)"Very BAD". We get the information from our daughter by telefon in Sweden.
We are unhurt and we think this was a usuful experience

Witness location : Ortaca (Turkey) (126 km NE from epicenter)

A local guy told us that this was one of the heaviest earthquacks he had expirenced. The water in his swimming pool was going in every possible direction and a lot of water came out of the pool.

Witness location : Fethiye (Turkey) (134 km NE from epicenter)

I was staying in a hotel, noticed that there were no instructions, several people from houses across the street came out of there houses. There should be instructions in hotels on what to do in the event of an earthquake

Witness location : 30 Km S Soke (Turkey) (175 km NW from epicenter)

Was a trembling sound like a large lorry passing and thought this was what it was until a few people on our local forum wrote about it.

Witness location : 10 Km SE Aydin (Turkey) (204 km N from epicenter)

the walls and floor was vibrating . tv on wall bracket was shaking .outside street furniture was shaking .all making fellow hoildayers amerge onto their balconys of various hotels

Witness location : 10 Km SE Aydin (Turkey) (204 km N from epicenter)

the walls and floor was vibrating . tv on wall bracket was shaking .outside street furniture was shaking .all making fellow hoildayers amerge onto their balconys of various hotels

Witness location : Soke (Turkey) (204 km NW from epicenter)

My light was swinging about

Witness location : Kato Gouvai (Greece) (238 km W from epicenter)

is it possible for you to report the duration of earth quakes

Witness location : 2 Km S Iraklion (Greece) (258 km W from epicenter)

S waves appeared near the end of the event having direction vertical to the epicenter vector (NW-SE)

P waves appeared having random patterns.

Some sort of either an intra-plaque reflection (ringing) or an afterquake  appeared as single S waves around 1 minute after themain event. strenght is approx. at 4 - 4.5 M

Witness location : Gazion (Greece) (262 km W from epicenter)

ΚΡΑΤΗΣΕ ΓΙΑ ΠΑΡΑΠΑΝΩ ΑΠΟ 20 ΔΕΠΤΕΡΑ ΜΕ ΤΗΝ ΙΔΙΑ ΕΝΤΑΣΗ

Witness location : Izmir (Turkey) (281 km NW from epicenter)

It was barely felt it. But I am just recently moved to Turkey, 5 months ago. My wife who is Turkish and sister-in-law both felt it immediatly. My wife was sleeping and it woke her up. My sister-in-law was dressing for work, and felt it also and came and told me there was just an earthquake. They are used to feeling them here in Izmir, I am not, so just barely felt it, didn't think nothing of it.

Witness location : Alanya (Turkey) (378 km E from epicenter)

Bereits vor einigen Jahren, als ein Erdbeben auf Kreta war, konnte ich die Erschuttung deutlich spuren. Ausschlaggebend ist meiner Meinung nach die Tiefe der Erschuttung, nicht die Starke des Bebens.

Witness location : 6 Km W Lemesos (Cyprus) (487 km E from epicenter)

It lasted at least 80 seconds.

Witness location : Alexandria (Egypt) (560 km S from epicenter)

My location is:
 31?15'26.98"N,  29?59'6.12"E

European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre

2008-07-15 Mw 6.4 DODECANESE ISLANDS, GREECE