M3.0 earthquake 26 km NW of Fry, Greece
A magnitude 3.0 earthquake struck 26 km NW of Fry, Greece on Wed, Dec 6, 2006, 8:59 AM GMT+2 (06:59 UTC), 23 km (14 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.6 32 km S of Fry, Greece. 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
- 2006-12-06 06:59:56 UTC
- Depth
- 23.0 km (14.3 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 35.570° N, 26.700° E
- Region
- Greece
- 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 usp000ezmv. 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
- 137°
- 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: 19 in the 60 days after this one and 11 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 3.418 km SSE of Palekastro, Greece · 7238 days ago · 40 km deep · 66 km away
- 3.415 km N of Fry, Greece · 7236 days ago · 21 km deep · 23 km away
- 3.312 km NNW of Karpathos, Greece · 7234 days ago · 30 km deep · 40 km away
- 3.451 km S of Palekastro, Greece · 7234 days ago · 14 km deep · 98 km away
- 3.633 km E of Palekastro, Greece · 7230 days ago · 39 km deep · 37 km away
- 3.417 km N of Karpathos, Greece · 7228 days ago · 12 km deep · 45 km away
- 3.136 km NNE of Eloúnda, Greece · 7224 days ago · 20 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.632 km S of Fry, Greece · 7222 days ago · 18 km deep · 53 km away
- 3.365 km S of Fry, Greece · 7218 days ago · 17 km deep · 86 km away
- 3.129 km NE of Eloúnda, Greece · 7211 days ago · 20 km deep · 71 km away
- 2.917 km SSE of Fry, Greece · 7209 days ago · 23 km deep · 43 km away
- 3.435 km NNE of Karpathos, Greece · 7209 days ago · 10 km deep · 67 km away
- 3.534 km NNE of Karpathos, Greece · 7203 days ago · 29 km deep · 64 km away
- 3.218 km N of Karpathos, Greece · 7197 days ago · 18 km deep · 50 km away
- 3.234 km N of Karpathos, Greece · 7192 days ago · 20 km deep · 55 km away
- 3.435 km N of Karpathos, Greece · 7192 days ago · 19 km deep · 54 km away
- 3.635 km NNE of Karpathos, Greece · 7192 days ago · 21 km deep · 64 km away
- 3.129 km S of Mandráki, Greece · 7190 days ago · 38 km deep · 96 km away
- 3.140 km ESE of Astypálaia, Greece · 7188 days ago · 10 km deep · 92 km away
Before
- 3.559 km S of Fry, Greece · 7240 days ago · 42 km deep · 79 km away
- 3.140 km S of Fry, Greece · 7244 days ago · 65 km deep · 59 km away
- 4.4Crete, Greece · 7244 days ago · 87 km deep · 80 km away
- 3.0Crete, Greece · 7246 days ago · 32 km deep · 23 km away
- 3.339 km N of Karpathos, Greece · 7250 days ago · 12 km deep · 60 km away
- 3.58 km N of Fry, Greece · 7252 days ago · 29 km deep · 23 km away
- 3.458 km WSW of Émponas, Greece · 7258 days ago · 42 km deep · 74 km away
- 3.231 km SE of Fry, Greece · 7258 days ago · 24 km deep · 58 km away
- 3.5Crete, Greece · 7259 days ago · 10 km deep · 97 km away
- 3.123 km SSW of Mandráki, Greece · 7266 days ago · 12 km deep · 99 km away
- 3.761 km S of Fry, Greece · 7269 days ago · 5 km deep · 81 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usp000ezmv. Read Fri, Oct 2, 2026, 6:46 AM UTC.