An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale was registered, 302 km southwest of Athens, in the Ionian Sea at 9:38 am, according to a statement from the Geodetic Institute of the National Observatory of Athens.

The epicentre of the earthquake is located in the sea 53 km west of Strofades.

A powerful earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale shook the coastal town of Parga in western Greece at 2:49 on Saturday, according to the Geodynamic Institute of Athens. The epicenter of the quake was 14 km east-northeast of Parga at a focal depth of 10 km and was the same one that had caused a 4.3 Richter earthquake in the area 21 minutes before midnight on Friday.

An earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter Scale, with its epcicentre in the west of the region of Karditsa and Trikala in central Greece was recorded at 11:24 by Athens Geodynamic Institute.