A moderate quake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale was recorded at 10:42 in the sea region between Kos and the Turkish coasts, according to the Geodynamics Institute of Athens' National Observatory.

An urgent preliminary examination of the content of the publication that spoke of a major earthquake in Crete was ordered yesterday by the prosecutor of Herakleion, Thanasis Galinas.

There are no problems regarding the hotels on Kos following the 6.4 magnitude earthquake that hit the island on Friday, according to the president of the Hoteliers Association of Kos, Konstantina Svynou.