Greece earthquakes

M6.7 earthquake 5 km SW of Domvraína, Greece

A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck 5 km SW of Domvraína, Greece on Tue, Feb 24, 1981, 10:53 PM GMT+2 (20:53 UTC), 33 km (21 mi) below the surface.

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The earthquake

Magnitude: 6.7 (ms), strong
Local time: Tue, Feb 24, 1981, 10:53 PM GMT+2
UTC: 1981-02-24 20:53:38 UTC
Depth: 33.0 km (20.5 mi), shallow
Epicenter: 38.222° N, 22.934° E
Region: Greece
Strongest shaking: IX, violent shaking
Tsunami flag: No
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

Deaths and damage

From NOAA NCEI’s Significant Earthquake Database (record 4915), matched to this event by time and place.

Deaths: 22
Injuries: 400
Damage: $812 million
Houses destroyed: 8,000

Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.

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Shaking

The USGS ShakeMap: shaking estimated from seismic stations and the quake’s size, on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale.

Strongest estimated: IX, violent shaking
Peak ground acceleration: 120.3% of gravity
Peak ground velocity: 5.0 cm/s
Map: Automatic

USGS ShakeMap: estimated shaking intensity around the epicenter — Estimated shaking intensity. Map: USGS ShakeMap.

Did you feel it?

No one has reported feeling this quake to the USGS.

How well it is located

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Depth from: OPERATOR_ASSIGNED

Nearest places

Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.

Nearby

Within 100 km, magnitude 3.7 and up: 109 in the 60 days after this one and 1 in the 30 days before it.

After

The first 60 of 109.

Before

4.12 km E of Galaxídhion, GreeceThu, Jan 29, 1:07 PM GMT+2 · 16676 days ago · 33 km deep · 49 km away

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Sources

From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usp0001ccb (also filed as gcmtc022481d, gcmt19810224205338, atlas19810224205337, iscgem631767). Read Sat, Sep 26, 2026, 8:38 PM UTC.