Earthquake in Greece wakes people up in Athens
Created: 11/29/2022, 9:36 am
By: Martina Lippl
Several earthquakes shook Greece on Tuesday morning, reports the Geodnamic Institute of Athens.
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Earthquakes shook Greece on Tuesday morning.
Thousands of people were startled awake.
Athens – Several tremors shook parts of Greece on Tuesday morning.
The strongest earthquake measured 4.8 on the Richter scale.
This is reported by the Geodynamic Institute of Athens.
The epicenter was therefore 13 kilometers below the sea floor southeast of the island of Evia.
The tremors were also felt in the capital Athens, 60 kilometers away.
The tremor happened shortly after 6:30 a.m. (local time).
This was followed almost an hour later by two more earthquakes, measuring 4.1 and 4.2 on the Richter scale.
"So far we have no information about injuries or damage," said Lefteris Raviolos, mayor of the small town of Karystos on the island of Evia, on state broadcaster ERT.
Series of earthquakes shakes Greece
6:32 am - 4.8 magnitude earthquake in Greece
7:23 am - 4.1 magnitude earthquake
7:24 am - 4.2 magnitude earthquake
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According to seismologists, there were numerous fore and aftershocks, some of them strong, before and after the 4.8 magnitude tremor.
In September 2022, an earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale shook the holiday island of Crete.
A few days later, earthquakes shook a popular holiday island in the Ionian Sea.
The world-famous Navagio Beach on the island of Zakynthos was temporarily closed to tourists after a rockfall.
(ml/dpa)