(Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 6 struck off the coast of Crete, Greece, on Thursday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said.

The quake was at a depth of 77 km (47.85 miles), GFZ said.

GFZ had earlier assigned a magnitude of 6.5 to the earthquake.

(Reporting by Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru; Editing by Christopher Cushing)