A magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck the coastal area of Calabria, in the southern tip of the Italian peninsula, and has been felt in much of southern Italy, although for now no material or personal damage has been detected.
"An earthquake of magnitude ML 6.2 was registered by the stations of the National Seismic Network at 0:12 on June 2, 2026, with its epicenter in the sea approximately 20 kilometers off the northwestern coast of Calabria, near Amantea (province of Cosenza)," reported the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV).
The agency detailed that the earthquake occurred "at a considerable depth, approximately 250 kilometers," and stressed that, "despite the great depth of the hypocenter, the earthquake, which occurred in the Tyrrhenian Sea, was widely felt from Lazio to Sicily, as demonstrated by the questionnaires received" by the institute itself.
According to the INGV, deep earthquakes are "characteristic" of the southern sector of the Tyrrhenian Sea where this latest episode originated, and pointed out that they are "caused by the geological process of subduction of the Ionian lithosphere under Calabria."