“Exercise, exercise, exercise”, read an emergency text message which alerted people on the island of Crete of a mock earthquake measuring 7.2 magnitude off the city of Iraklio.
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Crete launched an earthquake protection exercise to identify and address potential errors, omissions and deficiencies in any response to an emergency.
The families addressed the court one by one, sobbing as they spoke the names of relatives who had been killed when their upscale apartment complex in southern Turkey toppled over during a powerful earthquake last year.
The eastern Aegean island of Samos was jolted by a 4.3 magnitude earthquake on Friday morning, according to the Geodynamic Institute of the National Observatory of Athens. No injuries or damage were reported.
A moderately strong earthquake has struck central Turkey, the country’s disaster management agency said, causing damage to some buildings.
A 4.5 magnitude earthquake jolted northern parts of Evia island early on Saturday morning.
They are explorers of submarine faults, often at great depths, using sound waves as a guide in the darkness. They have been trying for decades to capture the geological “engravings” and underwater structures of Greece’s seabed so that seismologists can better “read” the future.
When a 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan’s scenic and largely rural east coast county of Hualien on Wednesday, local official Chang Tung-yao knew exactly what to do, having experienced a similar temblor six years before.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7 has struck southern Greece off the coast of the western Peloponnese.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will provide 30 million euros ($32.50 million) in long-term financing to Turkey’s Ronesans Gayrimenkul Yatirim to support regions affected by last year’s earthquakes.
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.
Habip Yapar felt lucky that his home in southern Turkey withstood last year’s devastating earthquake. Then a text message appeared on his phone in October telling him the government was taking ownership of the apartment.
A 4.6 magnitude earthquake rattled the island of Rhodes in the eastern Aegean early Friday morning. No injuries or damages were reported.
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 4.3 magnitude earthquake rattled Antikythera early Thursday morning, a small island on the edge of the Aegean Sea, lying between Crete and the Peloponnese. No damages were reported.
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.
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