Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 11:29 am Post subject:
Earthquake shakes Greek island
A powerful undersea earthquake off the western Greek island of Lefkada has injured at least 15 people.
A spokesman for the Athens Geodynamic Institute, which monitors earthquake activity in Greece, reported the magnitude of the earthquake as 6.4 on the Richter scale.
According to the institute the earthquake occurred 10 kilometres (six miles) under the sea at 0815 (0515 GMT), 30 kilometres from a popular holiday resort.
Vasilis Katopodis, the mayor of Karias - a village located in the centre of Lefkada - said the earthquake had caused "no serious damage" in the region.
"We have some landslides and some minor damage to older stone buildings. Electricity is being restored and the roads have been cleared."
The island's fire chief, Alexandros Mihos, told the Associated Press news agency that some people had suffered broken limbs, mostly caused by falling rocks or roof tiles.
Other reported damage included cracks in some roads and fallen lamp posts.
Antonis Kalogerakis, an official at the Civil Defence Operations, said there "was some panic".
"It mostly scared tourists, who have not felt such intense things. There has been only minimal damage."
The AFP news agency quotes the civil defence office as saying around 30 houses had collapsed in the north of the island.
Residents of neighbouring islands including Cephalonia and Corfu, just a few miles south of Lefkada, said they felt the quake too.
Cephalonia residents had been marking the 50th anniversary of a giant quake that all but destroyed the island in 1953, levelling all buildings and killing 476 people.
Greece lies on several large faults, including the Anatolian fault that stretches from eastern Turkey down to central Greece.
Minor quakes hit the central Greek city of Larisa on 9 June (measuring 5.4) and the Greek island of Evia, 70 kilometres north of Athens, on 18 June (measuring 4.9).
An earthquake measuring 6.4 killed 105 people in neighbouring Turkey - in the south-eastern area of Bingol - on May 1.
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this is scary shit... but for me posting this, it gets worse...
my mother, and my little brother and sister are on holiday on the island, and i have heard nothing from any one of them.
i doubt that they're hurt or dead, but how can i know? QUICK_EDIT
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Earthquake shakes Greek island
