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2021 Arkalochori earthquake. / 35.252; 25.260. A moment magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck the island of Crete in Greece at a depth of 6 km on 27 September 2021. [4] [5] [6] The epicenter of the earthquake was located southeast of Heraklion. The quake killed one person, injured 36 (one indirect) and damaged over 5,000 old buildings on the island.
On March 3, 2021, 12:16:09 ( UTC +2) the 2021 Larissa earthquake had a magnitude of 6.3 Mw with an intensity of VIII ( Severe) on the Mercalli Scale 9 kilometers west of Týrnavos, Greece. [2] One person was confirmed dead with eleven other people injured. [3] Light shaking was also felt as far as Albania, North Macedonia, Kosovo and Montenegro.
In mainland Greece, normal faulting gives earthquakes up to 7 in magnitude, while in the northern Aegean, strike-slip events with a magnitude of 7.2 have been recorded. Large intermediate depth (>50 km) earthquakes of magnitude >7 from within the subducting African Plate have been recorded but such events cause little damage, although they are ...
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7 has struck southern Greece off the coast of the western Peloponnese. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries from the quake, which ...
The Rhodes earthquake of 226 BC, which affected the island of Rhodes, Greece, is famous for having toppled the large statue known as the Colossus of Rhodes. Following the earthquake, the statue lay in place for nearly eight centuries before being sold off by invaders. While 226 BC is most often cited as the date of the quake, sources variously ...
An earthquake with a moment magnitude of 7.0 [4] [note 1] occurred on 30 October 2020 about 14 km (8.7 mi) northeast of the Greek island of Samos.Although Samos was closest to the epicentre, it was the Turkish city İzmir, 70 km (43 mi) northeast that was heavily affected—more than 700 residential and commercial structures were seriously damaged or destroyed.
The 1999 Athens earthquake occurred on September 7 at 14:56:51 local time near Mount Parnitha in Greece with a moment magnitude of 6.0 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX ( Violent ). The proximity to the Athens metropolitan area resulted in widespread structural damage, mainly to the nearby suburban towns of Ano Liosia, Acharnes, Fyli ...
An earthquake occurred at 2:13 p.m. on Friday, July 19, 2019, and affected many people in the middle of the day. Several seismological institutes determined a magnitude of about 5.3 and the epicentral region appeared to be south of Mt Parnitha, ~20 km NW of the Athens metropolitan area. [ 1][ 2] Nearly 20 years before, on the 7th September 1999 ...