Earthquake 120 km SW at Athens 6,2 R - Midlands Weather Forum

weather1967 · #1 (**Link to Post**) 06-Jan-2008, 07:53

Earthquake we had here in Greece at today morning 5:14 utc or 7:14 local time 130 km SW at Athens 6,2 R ,fortunately we had only small material damage.

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Magnitude Mw 6.2
Region SOUTHERN GREECE
Date time2 008-01-06 at 05:14:18.5 UTC
Location 37.21 N ; 22.64 E
Depth 73 km
Distances
121 km SW Piraieús (pop 172,429 ; local time 07:14 2008-01-06)
25 km NE Spárti (pop 15,497 ; local time 07:14 2008-01-06)
17 km SE Kariaí (pop 1,048 ; local time 07:14 2008-01-06)

Themightyimp · #2 (**Link to Post**) 06-Jan-2008, 09:04

Looks like there's been a couple of after shocks aswell.

Thunder God · #3 (**Link to Post**) 06-Jan-2008, 10:24

Heres a news report of it Dimitris from here.

A powerful earthquake has hit Greece, shaking buildings and waking people from their sleep.

Greek geologists say the quake - measuring 6.5 - was centred 120km (75 miles) south-west of Athens in the southern Peloponnese region.
But it was very deep, 51km underground, and there were no early reports of casualties or damage.
Reports say the quake was felt over much of Greece, which is the most earthquake-prone country in Europe.
The earthquake struck at 0514 GMT - 0714 local time - while many people were still asleep.
BBC Athens correspondent Malcolm Brabant said the quake shook his house vigorously for 20 seconds and sent him sprinting for the front door.
Residents of the southern town of Kalamata said their houses shook for 40 seconds.
Reports say the quake was also felt in Italy. The last serious earthquake in Greece killed more than 100 people in September 1999.

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Greece hit by strong earthquake

Stourbridge Weather · #4 (**Link to Post**) 06-Jan-2008, 10:37

I hope everyone is OK Over there, its a pretty bad earthquake above 6 on the richter scale i think.

weather1967 · #5 (**Link to Post**) 06-Jan-2008, 14:03

Yes Stuart BBC is corect,after i listen here it was 6,5 R but only little damage at old house there at the centre of earthquake ,people fortunately all is fine .

Themightyimp · #6 (**Link to Post**) 06-Jan-2008, 15:14

I've just been looking through the link provided.I didn't realise that there where so many tremors and quakes on a daily basis.Looks like Turkey has had a busy day tremor wise.
EMSC - European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre

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