An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 has actually struck in Greece, with tremblings felt in Athens and even as far as Kosovo.
The epicentre is around 25km northwest of Larisa, the 5th most populated city in the nation, seismologist Stephen Hicks stated.
He included: ‘Quite a shallow depth so strong shaking can be anticipated. Magnitude approximates still variable, for this reason “6-ish”.’
People in Larisa left their houses to come out into the streets however the level of any damage is not yet understood.
Witnesses stated ‘buildings were shaking’ and ‘dust was rising’ with one home stated to have ‘shaken like a ship’.
Dr Hicks included: ‘The epicentre & mechanism of the M6.3 earthquake seems to correspond with quite a few mapped faults in the region, including the WNW-ESE striking Tryvanos fault, which was assigned a maximum magnitude of M6.3 based on palaeoseismology.’
Larissa local Dimitris, 46, informed Al Jazeera: ‘I was driving and everything starting shaking. It was very scary.’
Another local, Giorgos, 45, stated: ‘I believed the flooring was going to collapse. It was continuing, the trees were shaking like insane.
‘I didn’t understand what to do.’
Seismologist Efthymis Lekkas informed state tv ERT: ‘It was a big earthquake the consequences of which we do not yet know.’
There were aftershocks felt in the location, consisting of one with an initial magnitude of 4.9.
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