Quakedle
Puzzle #44 was 20 km SSE of Fry, Greece.
Quakedle is an educational game. Event details and tsunami indicators must not be used for emergency decisions; follow official local authorities and current USGS notices.
USGS — Tectonic Plates of the Earth
How it scored
- Magnitude
- M6.0 — strong class
- Magnitude type
- mww — W-phase moment magnitude
- Depth
- 76.2 km — intermediate
- Region
- The Mediterranean
- Tsunami indicator
- USGS tsunami indicator not set
- Felt reports
- 931 DYFI reports
- PAGER alert
- green PAGER alert
- Tectonic plates
- African Plate · Eurasian Plate · Anatolian Plate
- Tectonic context
- Africa–Eurasia convergence is partitioned across subduction zones, mountain belts, and crustal faults around the Mediterranean and nearby Atlantic margin.
Also on the record
- USGS reports magnitude M6.0. Which standard descriptive class contains it?
- Strong (M6.0–6.9)
- The hypocentral depth is 76.2 km. Which depth band is it in?
- Intermediate (70–300 km)
- USGS locates the event at “20 km SSE of Fry, Greece”. Which broad authored region matches?
- The Mediterranean
- What does the USGS tsunami indicator say for this event?
- No — USGS did not set the event’s tsunami indicator; that is not a forecast.
- Is this the largest earthquake in the supplied USGS week comparison?
- Yes — it is the largest or tied for largest in the supplied week.