Greece earthquakes

M6.2 earthquake 15 km WNW of Leonídio, Greece

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck 15 km WNW of Leonídio, Greece on Sun, Jan 6, 2008, 7:14 AM GMT+2 (05:14 UTC), 75 km (47 mi) below the surface.

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The earthquake

Magnitude: 6.2 (Mwb, body-wave moment), strong
Magnitude from: USGS National Earthquake Information Center
Local time: Sun, Jan 6, 2008, 7:14 AM GMT+2
UTC: 2008-01-06 05:14:20 UTC
Depth: 75.0 km (46.6 mi), intermediate-depth
Epicenter: 37.216° N, 22.693° E
Region: Greece
Felt reports: 521
Strongest shaking: V, moderate shaking
Tsunami flag: No
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

Magnitude estimates

Different scales measure different things and differ by a few tenths. The USGS marks one as preferred, and it is the one this page uses.

Mag.	Scale	Computed by	Notes
6.2	Mwb, body-wave moment	USGS National Earthquake Information Center	Preferred · Reviewed
6.18	Mw, moment	ISC-GEM global catalog	Final · ±0.1
6.2	Mwc, centroid moment	Global CMT project	Preliminary
6.09	Me, energy	Choy, USGS energy magnitude	Reviewed

What happened

The USGS’s account of the effects of this earthquake.

Homes damaged in southern Peloponnisos. Felt (VI) at Nea Ionia; (V) at Ayia Paraskevi, Kalamata, Moskhaton, Papagos, Peristerion and Vrilissia; (IV) at Amarousion, Athens, Galatsion, Glifadha, Iraklion, Kalamakion, Kallithea, Khalandrion, Kifisia, Koropion, Nea Smirni, Palaion Faliron, Patrai, Psikhikon, Vokhaikon, Voula and Zografos; (III) at Aigaleo, Akharnai, Dafni, Khania, Nikaia, Piraeus and Vari. Felt in much of Greece from Crete to Macedonia. Felt (IV) at Bari, Brindisi, Lecce, Matera, Messina, Ragusa, Reggio di Calabria and Taranto, Italy. Felt in much of southern Italy from eastern Sicily to Campania and Molise. Felt (III) at Rabat and Sliema and (II) at Birkirkara, Malta. Also felt at Tirana and Vlore, Albania; Dubrovnik, Croatia; Alexandria, Al Jizah and Cairo, Egypt; Banghazi, Libya and at Podgorica, Montenegro.

From the USGS event page for usp000fw2w. U.S. Geological Survey text and figures are in the public domain.

Shaking

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

Strongest estimated: V, moderate shaking
Peak ground acceleration: 8.1% of gravity
Peak ground velocity: 1.5 cm/s
Map: Automatic

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

Did you feel it?

521 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was VI, strong shaking.

Fault motion and ground failure

How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.

Faulting: Strike-slip
Nodal plane 1: Strike 222°, dip 41°, rake 20°
Nodal plane 2: Strike 117°, dip 77°, rake 130°
Landslide alert: Green
Liquefaction alert: Green

How well it is located

Reviewed by a seismologist.

Depth from: OPERATOR_ASSIGNED
Station coverage gap: 24°
Stations used: 640

Nearest places

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

Nearby

Within 100 km, magnitude 3.2 and up: 24 in the 60 days after this one and 6 in the 30 days before it.

After

Before

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Sources

From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usp000fw2w (also filed as us2008lwak, choy20080106051420, gcmtc200801060514a, gcmt20080106051420, atlas20080106051417, iscgem13328769). Read Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 12:09 AM UTC.