9 minor earthquakes with the strongest magnitude of two.7 rattled the northeastern suburbs of the Greek capital on Sunday, mentioned the Nationwide Observatory of Athens.
No accidents or harm have been reported, however folks expressed concern on social media over the unusually elevated seismic exercise recorded by scientists within the space since Dec. 11.
The Nationwide Observatory of Athens has recorded 16 tremors within the space up to now three weeks till Saturday, Athanassios Ganas, analysis director on the observatory, informed Greek nationwide broadcaster ERT.
Though Greece is a seismic-prone nation and other people have change into accustomed to the handfuls of small and average tremors recorded daily, total the Attica basin is an space of somewhat low seismicity, Ganas mentioned.
“The fault on the foot of Hymettus Mount is small and so far as we all know, in response to historic information and up to date seismological knowledge, has not been linked to main earthquakes,” Efthymios Lekkas, president of Greece’s Earthquake Planning and Safety Group, informed ERT.
“The tremors of latest weeks have been beneath 4 Richter and the continual seismic exercise is somewhat a constructive signal that may progressively fade away in coming weeks,” he added.
