EARTHQUAKE


4.7-magnitude quake recorded near Corfu
NEWS

An earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale was recorded on Friday morning off the coast of Corfu, in western Greece, the National Observatory of Athens Geodynamic Institute said. 

4.6 magnitude quake rattles Rhodes
NEWS

A 4.6 magnitude earthquake rattled the island of Rhodes in the eastern Aegean early Friday morning. No injuries or damages were reported. 


Fokida jolted by 4.2-magnitude tremor 
NEWS

A 4.2-magnitude earthquake shook the  southeastern part of Phocis, in central Greece, on Thursday. No injuries or damages were immediately reported. The earthquake occurred at 1.21 p.m. and, according to the preliminary reading of the Geodynamic Institute of the National Observatory of Athens, the epicenter was located four kilometers northwest of the town of Itea, […]

A year after Turkey’s devastating earthquakes
PODCASTS

Nektaria Stamouli, the deputy editor in chief of Kathimerini’s English Edition and Politico’s Eastern Mediterranean correspondent, joins Thanos Davelis to discuss a recent trip with a team of international journalists to southeast Turkey that looked into the ways last year’s devastating earthquakes continue to impact Turkey and the region.


Turkey, a year after the life-changing earthquakes
SOCIETY

“It felt like the world was turning upside down. Telling the story is not the same as experiencing it.” Sixty-one-year-old Kahraman Karat vividly remembers this night last year when the earth shook violently in the middle of his slumbers, taking tens of thousands of lives.



Samos hit by 4.9 temblor
NEWS

The eastern Aegean island of Samos was jolted by a 4.9 magnitude quake on Saturday, as reported by the Geodynamic Institute in Athens. No injuries or damage were reported. 


4.6 magnitude quake shakes Athens
NEWS

A 4.6 magnitude earthquake has hit east of Evia, Greece’s second largest island, shaking the capital Athens, southwest of the tremor’s epicenter. The tremor was felt at 4.15 p.m. local time. The Athens-based Institute of Geodynamics announced on its website that the earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 kilometers.

Moderate tremor rattles eastern Peloponnese
NEWS

A moderate earthquake rattled the eastern Peloponnese and parts of the Greek capital on Tuesday morning, with initial estimates putting its magnitude at 4.8 on the Richter scale.