Greece Rocked By New 5.9 Quake Near City Of Larissa
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published March 05, 2021 | 01:40 AM
Athens, March 4 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 5th Mar, 2021 ) :A new 5.9 magnitude quake hit central Greece near the city of Larissa on Thursday, the same region where an even stronger tremor left 11 people injured the day before, the Athens seismological observatory said.
No injuries were immediately reported from the new quake, which was felt 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Elassona, near Larissa, the observatory said.
But rescue services said there were rock falls and new damage to buildings already weakened by the previous quake.
And the state television channel ERT showed footage of panicked residents on the streets.
The observatory described the tremor as "very strong" and said it occurred at 8:38 pm (1838 GMT) some 16 kilometres from Elassona and 244 kilometres north of Athens.
The head of Greece's quake protection authority, Efthymis Lekkas, told Skai radio that the new tremor was around five kilometres from the epicentre of the quake on Wednesday.
Greece is located on a number of fault lines, and is sporadically hit by earthquakes. But they mostly occur at sea and do not cause casualties.
In October, a 7.0 magnitude quake struck in the Aegean Sea between the Greek island of Samos and the city of Izmir in western Turkey. Two teenagers died on the island of Samos in a building collapse.
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