Greece earthquakes

M6.4 earthquake 18 km NW of Lixoúri, Greece

A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck 18 km NW of Lixoúri, Greece on Thu, Mar 24, 1983, 1:51 AM GMT+2 (23:51 UTC), 19 km (12 mi) below the surface.

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The earthquake

Magnitude: 6.4 (mw), strong
Local time: Thu, Mar 24, 1983, 1:51 AM GMT+2
UTC: 1983-03-23 23:51:06 UTC
Depth: 19.1 km (11.9 mi), shallow
Epicenter: 38.294° N, 20.262° E
Region: Greece
Strongest shaking: VI, strong shaking
Tsunami flag: No
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

Deaths and damage

From NOAA NCEI’s Significant Earthquake Database (record 4966), matched to this event by time and place.

Injuries: 7
Damage: Moderate (about $1 to $5 million)
Houses destroyed: 160

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: VI, strong shaking
Peak ground acceleration: 24.5% of gravity
Peak ground velocity: 2.9 cm/s
Map: Automatic

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

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Nearby

Within 100 km, magnitude 3.4 and up: 106 in the 60 days after this one and 33 in the 30 days before it.

After

The first 60 of 106.

Before

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Sources

From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usp0001twa (also filed as gcmtb032383d, gcmt19830323235106, atlas19830323235108, iscgem581300). Read Mon, Sep 28, 2026, 6:18 PM UTC.