With debris and fallen rock blocking roads to Moroccan villages hit hardest by an earthquake, many residents began burying their dead and foraging for scarce supplies on Sunday as they waited for government aid.
EARTHQUAKE
There are no reports of Greek nationals missing or injured in Morocco after the devastating earthquake of magnitude 6.8 that struck the country on Friday night, according to Foreign Ministry sources.
Amidst extreme weather and destruction by floods and wildfires, September 7 marks the 24th anniversary of another deadly natural disaster: the 1999 earthquake in Athens that left 145 people dead and destroyed tens of thousands of buildings and homes.
Two earthquakes were reported off the island of Samos in the eastern Aegean, just minutes apart, on Monday morning, according to data from the Geodynamic Institute of the National Observatory of Athens.
A 4.0 magnitude earthquake struck near the island of Rhodes on Monday afternoon. The quake’s epicenter was identified 33 kilometers off the north-east coast of the island, at a depth of 39.8 kilometers.
The eastern Aegean island of Samos was jolted by a 3.7 magnitude earthquake on Monday morning, as reported by the Geodynamic Institute of the National Observatory of Athens.
Authorities on the Greek island of Crete have ordered the temporary closure of mountain gorges popular with hikers after an earthquake triggered a rockslide and seriously injured a Spanish tourist.
A 4.9 magnitude earthquake shook Crete on Sunday morning at approximately 10.49 a.m. The quake’s epicenter was identified 7 kilometers south of Sougia in the Hania administrative region, at a depth of 10.7 kilometers.
An earthquake of magnitude 5.2 struck eastern Turkey on Thursday.
Dust and rubble fill the street as an excavator tears off chunks of concrete from an old apartment building.
A 4.0 magnitude earthquake struck the region of Laconia in the Peloponnese on Monday. The quake occurred at 3.05 p.m. and its epicenter was located at sea, 12 kilometers east of Neapoli Voion.
A 3.6 magnitude earthquake occurred on eastern Aegean island of Lesvos on Tuesday, according to a revised assessment by the Geodynamic Institute of the National Observatory of Athens.
A 4.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the Cycladic island of Amorgos on Friday morning. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
A 4.1 magnitude earthquake struck the area of Atalanti in the eastern Fthiotida region on Saturday, according to the Athens-based Institute of Geodynamics.
Despite assurances that a 4.8-Richter earthquake that jolted Atalanti in eastern Fthiotida on Thursday afternoon was not related to the Atalanti Fault – a large active fault segment in the Gulf of Evia – residents of the town remained uneasy, with many leaving their homes, and some of them even heading to the beach fearing the possibility of powerful aftershocks.
An earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale was recorded on Thursday at 3.33 p.m. in the area of Atalanti and was felt in several areas of Attica.
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