Sixty people lost their lives in Crete in traffic accidents in 2019. 

Seismologists in Greece are on alert after the recent high frequency of earthquake activity in Crete. Only in the last 6 days, 101 small and medium-sized seismic vibrations were recorded, which have troubled scientists as they are still unable to determine whether the series of tremors is a pre-seismic activity of a larger quake yet to strike, or a simple cluster of vibrations.

An earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale was recorded at 05:05 on Thursday on eastern Crete.