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The death toll from the 6.8-magnitude Richter earthquake in Turkey on Friday night, has reached 31. 

Research Director of the Geodynamics Institute Gerasimos Chouliaras had predicted a strong earthquake in Turkey.

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.