M3.0 earthquake 23 km NNE of Datça, Turkey
A magnitude 3.0 earthquake struck 23 km NNE of Datça, Turkey on Mon, Dec 18, 2006, 9:16 PM GMT+2 (19:16 UTC), 29 km (18 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.2 22 km N of Datça, Turkey. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 3.0 (Md, duration), minor
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2006-12-18 19:16:50 UTC
- Depth
- 29.0 km (18.0 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 36.930° N, 27.800° E
- Region
- Turkey
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
What happened
The USGS’s account of the effects of this earthquake.
no people dead or missing; no people injured; no buildings damaged or destroyed
From the USGS event page for usp000f0gt. U.S. Geological Survey text and figures are in the public domain.
Did you feel it?
No one has reported feeling this quake to the USGS.
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Station coverage gap
- 204°, poorly surrounded by stations
- Stations used
- 4
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 21 in the 60 days after this one and 8 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 3.3Western Turkey · 7222 days ago · 8 km deep · 22 km away
- 2.70 km SW of Bay?r, Turkey · 7219 days ago · 5 km deep · 53 km away
- 3.318 km WSW of Ula, Turkey · 7219 days ago · 5 km deep · 40 km away
- 2.80 km ENE of Bay?r, Turkey · 7218 days ago · 2 km deep · 53 km away
- 2.80 km W of Bay?r, Turkey · 7218 days ago · 6 km deep · 52 km away
- 2.624 km NW of Marmaris, Turkey · 7216 days ago · 15 km deep · 29 km away
- 3.118 km WNW of Marmaris, Turkey · 7216 days ago · 6 km deep · 26 km away
- 3.225 km SSW of Sými, Greece · 7216 days ago · 9 km deep · 58 km away
- 3.45 km SSE of Kos, Greece · 7209 days ago · 29 km deep · 44 km away
- 3.38 km WSW of Ula, Turkey · 7207 days ago · 16 km deep · 49 km away
- 2.73 km SSW of Bay?r, Turkey · 7206 days ago · 14 km deep · 50 km away
- 2.812 km SSW of Bay?r, Turkey · 7201 days ago · 5 km deep · 41 km away
- 3.125 km SSW of Kéfalos, Greece · 7201 days ago · 4 km deep · 96 km away
- 3.324 km SE of Mandráki, Greece · 7200 days ago · 88 km deep · 65 km away
- 3.314 km SW of Ula, Turkey · 7197 days ago · 5 km deep · 45 km away
- 3.010 km ESE of Émponas, Greece · 7192 days ago · 5 km deep · 84 km away
- 3.129 km S of Mandráki, Greece · 7191 days ago · 38 km deep · 87 km away
- 3.26 km N of Ula, Turkey · 7190 days ago · 7 km deep · 61 km away
- 4.222 km N of Datça, Turkey · 7184 days ago · 26 km deep · 8 km away
- 3.019 km WSW of Émponas, Greece · 7181 days ago · 10 km deep · 87 km away
- 3.816 km SSE of Bodrum, Turkey · 7173 days ago · 46 km deep · 27 km away
Before
- 2.719 km SW of ?çmeler, Turkey · 7235 days ago · 39 km deep · 41 km away
- 3.313 km N of Ródos, Greece · 7236 days ago · 48 km deep · 54 km away
- 2.92 km NW of Söke, Turkey · 7241 days ago · 25 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.022 km SW of Mandráki, Greece · 7246 days ago · 122 km deep · 92 km away
- 3.022 km NNW of Marmaris, Turkey · 7247 days ago · 14 km deep · 32 km away
- 3.230 km SW of Bay?r, Turkey · 7248 days ago · 13 km deep · 22 km away
- 3.38 km NNW of Mandráki, Greece · 7254 days ago · 137 km deep · 70 km away
- 3.4Dodecanese Islands, Greece · 7255 days ago · 141 km deep · 94 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usp000f0gt. Read Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 3:29 AM UTC.