January 8, 2006 Earthquake: Southern, Greece
A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck Southern, Greece on January 8, 2006 at 11:34:55 UTC, 66 km below the surface.
Map
Where it struck, with the other significant earthquakes within 200 km. Circles are sized and colored by magnitude; select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Date
- January 8, 2006
- Time
- 11:34:55 UTC
- Place
- Southern, Greece
- Magnitude
- 6.7 (Mw)
- Focal depth
- 66 km (41 mi)
- Tsunami
- None recorded
- Epicenter
- 36.311° N, 23.212° E
- Country
- Greece
The toll
- Injuries
- 3
- Damage
- Limited (under about $1 million)
- Houses destroyed
- Few (about 1 to 50)
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.
What the record says
NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.
Three people slightly injured on Crete. Eighty homes
and an airport damaged and phone service interrupted
on Kythira. Minor damage and phone service interrupted
on Crete and in Lakonia. Minor damage also on
Karpathos. Felt (VI) at Amarousion; (V) at Chania,
Irakleion, Kalamata and Nea Smirni; (IV) at Athens,
Glifadha and Oikismos Papagou; (III) at Ermoupolis and
Kifisia; (II) at Psikhikon. Also felt (IV) at Catania
and Motta Sant'Anastasia; (III) at Caltagirone and
Rutigliano; (II) at Campobasso, Italy. Felt (III) at
Mgarr, Naxxar and San Ghiljan, Malta. Also felt (III)
at Al Jizah and Cairo, Egypt. Felt at Amman, Jordan
and at Ramat Gan, Israel. (above from Reference #1053)
Other significant earthquakes nearby
Within 200 km, the deadliest first.
- December 856, Korinthos,patrai (Patras), Greece
- July 21, 365, Knossos, Crete, Greece
- February 16, 1810, Iraklion (Candia), Crete, Greece
- June 7, 1750, Morea,cerigo, Greece
- August 27, 1886, Triphylie (Peleponese), Philiatra, Greece
- April 5, 1965, Southern, Greece
- June 10, 1846, Messini-Micromani (Messinia), Greece
- September 13, 1986, Kalami, Lakonia, Zakinthos, Greece
- April 22, 1928, Corinth (Corinthia), Greece
- February 21, 1858, Vieille,korinthos,hexamilia, Greece
- October 6, 1947, Pylia (Messinia), S, Greece
- August 11, 1903, Mitata (Kythera), Greece
- September 1, 1966, Southern, Greece
- August 28, 1962, Southern Greece
- June 1798, Southern Greece
More
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Sources
Significant earthquakes from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-09-24. NCEI earthquake 7222.