"We still don't know if the 7.7 Richter earthquake that hit southern Turkey on Monday morning was the main one," professor and president of the Earthquake Planning and Protection Organisation of Greece, Efthymios Lekkas, told the Athens-Macedonian News Ahency (ANA).

The Professor of Dynamic Tectonics, Applied Geology & Natural Disaster Management, Efthymis Lekkas, considers the seismic activity in the region of Crete to be normal.

Speaking about a strong earthquake in Turkey in the coming years, OASP (Anti-Seismic Proetction Authority) President Efthymios Lekkas emphasized that "in the global scientific community it is known that we are expecting a 7 Richter earthquake in Turkey in the next 4 to 5 years." This statement was made by Mr Lekkas, commenting on the position of the Turkish interior minister over a nightmarish 7.5 Richter earthquake in Istanbul which he described as "heavy".