Moderate earthquake startles southwestern Greece
Date
5/14/2019 5:37:23 AM
(MENAFN) The Geodynamic Institute of the National Observatory of Athens declared that an earthquake of a 4.7 magnitude has rattled southwestern Greece off the island of Zakynthos in the Ionian Sea on Monday.
Greek seismologists confirmed that the quake's epicenter was determined 5 kilometers deep into the sea bed about 19 kilometers off the town of Amaliada in the Peloponnese peninsula.
Earlier the Euro Mediterranean Seismological Center had set a preliminary magnitude of the earthquake at 5.1.
Greek national news agency AMNA confirmed that no victims or huge property losses have been reported by local authorities.
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