On the Greek holiday island of Samos, two strong quakes shook with an interval of fifteen minutes on Wednesday afternoon. Both earthquakes were more than ten kilometers south of the island, about eight kilometers below the sea floor. According to the Geodynamic Institute of Athens, the first had a magnitude of 4.8, the second even a magnitude of 5.2.
The spokesman for the island rescue service reported on television that people ran into the streets in panic during the first quake. “We are looking for damage, but nothing has been discovered so far,” the mayor of Eastern Samos, Giorgos Stantzos, told Skai broadcaster. There are many tourists on the island, but people need not worry.
It wasn’t until mid-August that an earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale, also felt on the islands of Chios, Ikaria and along the Turkish Aegean coast, shook the island of Samos.
The inhabitants of Samos still have the massive earthquake of October 2020 in their bones – at that time several buildings collapsed in earthquakes with a magnitude of 6.9 and two young people died. More than 100 victims were counted on the Turkish west coast, which was also affected.
Source: Krone
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