What the records say
- When
- 11 Jan 2022
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 6.6
- Where
- Cyprus
- Coordinates
- 35.23° N, 31.94° E
- Deaths
- 3
- Injuries
- 1
- Intensity mmi
- 6
- Depth km
- 21
2022 Cyprus earthquake
Magnitude 6.6 earthquake in the Mediterranean Sea
An earthquake struck west of Paphos, Cyprus on 11 January 2022, with a moment magnitude of 6.6. The earthquake was the largest tremor to occur in the Mediterranean Sea since the 2003 Boumerdès earthquake, and the largest to occur in Cyprus since 1996.
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- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A magnitude 6.6 earthquake strikes west of Cyprus”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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