The magnitude 6.3 earthquake was recorded in the morning. Greece is crossed by important geological flaws and earthquakes are frequent. On September 27, a shock had made a death and ten injured and caused significant damage.
Le Monde with AP and AFP
Fifteen days after a jumper jerk 5.8 that had shaken Crete and made a death and ten wounded in the village of Arkalohori, 23 kilometers from Herakleion, a powerful magnitude 6.3 earthquake was recorded, off the island south of Greece, announced the National Observatory of Athens, Tuesday, October 12th.
The epicenter of the earthquake on the island was “registered at sea at 9:24 GMT [11:24 am in Paris] 405 kilometers in the southeast of Athens and 24 kilometers from the locality of Zakros “, off the eastern coast of Crete, according to a statement from the Athens Observatory. According to the local media, the earthquake was felt in Crete and on the islands of the Dodecanne Archipelago in the Aegean Sea. “The epicenter of the earthquake is at sea, far from inhabited localities,” said Greek Grassimos Seismologist Papadopoulos on Skai Radio. Several replicas followed the earthquake.
The earthquake of September 27 which had damaged a thousand buildings had a different epicenter than Tuesday, according to Mr. Papadopoulos. It was then recorded 346 kilometers south of the Greek capital and had a depth of 10 kilometers. After the main jerk, the Athens Observatory had recorded more than thirty replicas in five hours.
Greece is crossed by important geological flaws and earthquakes are frequent there. On March 3, the center of Greece had been shaken by an earthquake in Elassona, making a death and ten wounded as well as important damage. On October 30, 2020, a magnitude 7 earthquake had shook the Aegean Sea between the Greek Island of Samos and the Turkish city of Izmir, making 114 dead in Turkey and two dead in Samos.