Quake felt in Athens
An earthquake was recorded at 2:24 (12.24 GMT) on Tuesday, roughly 90 kilometers northeast of Athens, in the central part of the large island of Evia.
- Published in Greece
An earthquake was recorded at 2:24 (12.24 GMT) on Tuesday, roughly 90 kilometers northeast of Athens, in the central part of the large island of Evia.
A 4.7 Richter earthquake occurred shortly after 6:30 on Tuesday morning off Evia, with the tremor also being felt in Attica. A barrage of aftershocks followed, in Evia after the initial tremor. By 7:30 in the morning, three aftershocks of magnitude 4.1, 3.2 and 2.2 were even felt in the Attica basin.
A weak earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale occurred about two hours after midnight today Thursday on the seabed of the Eastern Mediterranean.