M3.5 earthquake 30 km SSE of Palekastro, Greece
A magnitude 3.5 earthquake struck 30 km SSE of Palekastro, Greece on Sun, Jun 11, 2006, 4:46 PM GMT+3 (13:46 UTC), 26 km (16 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.3 16 km ESE of Palekastro, Greece. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 3.5 (Md, duration), minor
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2006-06-11 13:46:59 UTC
- Depth
- 26.0 km (16.2 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 34.930° N, 26.350° 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 usp000ek5k. 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
- 216°, poorly surrounded by stations
- Stations used
- 7
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 13 in the 60 days after this one and 22 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 3.345 km ESE of Palekastro, Greece · 7418 days ago · 5 km deep · 33 km away
- 3.44 km NW of Fry, Greece · 7417 days ago · 26 km deep · 74 km away
- 3.419 km SE of Fry, Greece · 7416 days ago · 31 km deep · 75 km away
- 3.125 km SSE of Fry, Greece · 7410 days ago · 4 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.058 km SE of Palekastro, Greece · 7410 days ago · 13 km deep · 39 km away
- 3.347 km SSE of Palekastro, Greece · 7406 days ago · 5 km deep · 18 km away
- 4.316 km ESE of Palekastro, Greece · 7406 days ago · 22 km deep · 25 km away
- 3.239 km SSE of Karpathos, Greece · 7405 days ago · 22 km deep · 93 km away
- 3.817 km SSE of Fry, Greece · 7397 days ago · 30 km deep · 73 km away
- 3.132 km SE of Pýrgos, Greece · 7392 days ago · 37 km deep · 89 km away
- 2.827 km SSE of Pýrgos, Greece · 7390 days ago · 42 km deep · 96 km away
- 3.534 km S of Palekastro, Greece · 7377 days ago · 57 km deep · 9 km away
- 3.528 km SSE of Pýrgos, Greece · 7365 days ago · 28 km deep · 97 km away
Before
- 3.715 km SSE of Karpathos, Greece · 7421 days ago · 27 km deep · 96 km away
- 3.324 km SSE of Fry, Greece · 7421 days ago · 3 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.322 km SE of Palekastro, Greece · 7421 days ago · 15 km deep · 19 km away
- 4.312 km ESE of Palekastro, Greece · 7421 days ago · 6 km deep · 26 km away
- 3.925 km SE of Palekastro, Greece · 7422 days ago · 17 km deep · 16 km away
- 3.630 km E of Palekastro, Greece · 7422 days ago · 10 km deep · 41 km away
- 3.812 km SE of Fry, Greece · 7422 days ago · 35 km deep · 75 km away
- 3.437 km S of Palekastro, Greece · 7423 days ago · 22 km deep · 9 km away
- 3.476 km S of Néa Anatolí, Greece · 7424 days ago · 23 km deep · 90 km away
- 3.532 km N of Eloúnda, Greece · 7426 days ago · 25 km deep · 86 km away
- 3.732 km WSW of Fry, Greece · 7426 days ago · 31 km deep · 48 km away
- 4.0102 km SSE of Ierápetra, Greece · 7430 days ago · 24 km deep · 92 km away
- 3.727 km SW of Néa Anatolí, Greece · 7435 days ago · 36 km deep · 86 km away
- 3.821 km S of Néa Anatolí, Greece · 7443 days ago · 31 km deep · 67 km away
- 3.722 km S of Ierápetra, Greece · 7445 days ago · 16 km deep · 53 km away
- 3.221 km NNE of Sísion, Greece · 7447 days ago · 32 km deep · 95 km away
- 3.155 km S of Fry, Greece · 7447 days ago · 5 km deep · 46 km away
- 3.547 km S of Fry, Greece · 7447 days ago · 42 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.461 km NNE of Eloúnda, Greece · 7448 days ago · 70 km deep · 99 km away
- 3.313 km S of Ierápetra, Greece · 7450 days ago · 20 km deep · 54 km away
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From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usp000ek5k. Read Sun, Oct 4, 2026, 6:34 PM UTC.