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Research Headlines - New technologies boost urban search-and-rescue efforts

Fri, 21 Feb 2020 12:50:00 +0100

Emergency events in urban areas, either due to natural disasters (earthquake, hurricane, flood) or acts of war or terrorism, can lead to massive destruction, damaging infrastructure and causing injury and loss of life. In such situations, the work of urban search-and-rescue (USAR) teams is vital to....

MIL-OSI Mediterranean: Statement of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikos Dendias, following today’s meeting...

Mon, 17 Feb 2020 20:09:00 +0100

I am very pleased because today the European Council decided there will be a new EU operation that will impose the arms embargo in Libya, in the air and at sea. Greece reiterated what it has said in the past: that it is prepared to contribute to this effort, first of all with means, but also with any other support that is needed.

Magnitude 4.8 earthquake hits Greek island

Fri, 14 Feb 2020 22:26:00 +0100

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8 has shaken Greece's southeastern Aegean Sea islands. No damage or injuries were reported by officials on Friday. The University of Athens' Geodynamic Institute said the undersea quake had an epicentre 39km northwest of Karpathos and occurred just after 6pm local time.

Greek island of Karpathos hit by 4.8-magnitude quake

Fri, 14 Feb 2020 20:35:00 +0100

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8 shook Greece's southeastern Aegean Sea islands Friday, officials said. No damage or injuries were reported. The University of Athens' Geodynamic Institute said the undersea quake had an epicenter 39 kilometers (24 miles) northwest of Karpathos and occurred just after 6 p.

Magnitude 4.8 earthquake hits Greek island

Fri, 14 Feb 2020 20:30:00 +0100

Magnitude 4.8 earthquake hits Greek island

Fri, 14 Feb 2020 20:25:00 +0100

Greek island of Karpathos hit by 4.8-magnitude quake

Fri, 14 Feb 2020 19:29:00 +0100

ATHENS, Greece An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8 shook Greece’s southeastern Aegean Sea islands Friday, officials said. No damage or injuries were reported. The University of Athens’ Geodynamic Institute said the undersea quake had an epicenter 39 kilometers (24 miles) northwest of Karpathos and occurred just after 6 p.

Greek island of Karpathos hit by 4.8-magnitude quake

Fri, 14 Feb 2020 19:28:00 +0100

Greek island of Karpathos hit by 4.8-magnitude quake

Fri, 14 Feb 2020 19:21:00 +0100

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8 shook Greece’s southeastern Aegean Sea islands Friday, officials said. No damage or injuries were reported. The University of Athens’ Geodynamic Institute said the undersea quake had an epicenter 39 kilometers (24 miles) northwest of Karpathos and occurred just after 6 p.

Greek island of Karpathos hit by 4.8-magnitude quake

Fri, 14 Feb 2020 18:59:00 +0100

Greek island of Karpathos hit by 4.8-magnitude quake

Fri, 14 Feb 2020 18:50:00 +0100

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8 shook Greece's southeastern Aegean Sea islands Friday, officials said. No damage or injuries were reported. The University of Athens' Geodynamic Institute said the undersea quake had an epicenter 39 kilometers (24 miles) northwest of Karpathos and occurred just after 6 p.

Greek island of Karpathos hit by 4.8-magnitude quake

Fri, 14 Feb 2020 18:48:00 +0100

ATHENS, Greece — (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8 shook Greece's southeastern Aegean Sea islands Friday, officials said. No damage or injuries were reported. The University of Athens' Geodynamic Institute said the undersea quake had an epicenter 39 kilometers (24 miles) northwest of Karpathos and occurred just after 6 p.

Greek island of Karpathos hit by 4.8-magnitude quake

Fri, 14 Feb 2020 18:19:00 +0100

Purchase: Order Reprint ATHENS, Greece — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8 shook Greece's southeastern Aegean Sea islands Friday, officials said. No damage or injuries were reported. The University of Athens' Geodynamic Institute said the undersea quake had an epicenter 39....

Greek island of Karpathos hit by 4.8-magnitude quake

Fri, 14 Feb 2020 18:14:00 +0100

ATHENS, Greece (AP) An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8 shook Greece's southeastern Aegean Sea islands Friday, officials said. No damage or injuries were reported. The University of Athens' Geodynamic Institute said the undersea quake had an epicenter 39 kilometers (24 miles) northwest of Karpathos and occurred just after 6 p.

Greek island of Karpathos hit by 4.8-magnitude quake

Fri, 14 Feb 2020 18:10:00 +0100

ATHENS, Greece -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8 shook Greece 's southeastern Aegean Sea islands Friday, officials said. No damage or injuries were reported. The University of Athens' Geodynamic Institute said the undersea quake had an epicenter 39 kilometers (24 miles) northwest of Karpathos and occurred just after 6 p.

Greece Activates Civil Protection Plan for Potential Santorini Volcano Eruption

Thu, 13 Feb 2020 17:08:00 +0100

. The General Secretariat for Greece’s Civil Protection has issued a new plan for addressing the consequences of a possible eruption of the ancient — yet still active — volcano on Santorini. As a secretariat official clarified to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency , the specific plan of action,....

Plan introduced to address possible activation of Santorini volcano

Thu, 13 Feb 2020 16:39:00 +0100

TAGS: Earthquake Greece's civil protection agency issued a plan for addressing the consequences of a possible activation of the volcano of Santorini, state-run news agency ANA-MPA reported Thursday. An official from the General Secretariat for Civil Protection told the news agency the specific....

Greece Activates Civil Protection Plan for Potential Santorini Volcano Eruption

Thu, 13 Feb 2020 16:03:00 +0100

The General Secretariat for Greece’s Civil Protection has issued a new plan for addressing the consequences of a possible eruption of the ancient — yet still active — volcano on Santorini. As a secretariat official clarified to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency , the specific plan of action, named....

Tremor rattles southern Greece

Thu, 06 Feb 2020 23:16:00 +0100

TAGS: Earthquake A moderate tremor with a preliminary magnitude of 4 on the Richter scale struck near the town of Kalavrita in southern Greece after 8 p.m. on Thursday. According to the automatic report of the incident from the National Observatory's Geodynamic Institute, the earthquake struck at 8.

Earthquake Jolts Central Greece

Thu, 06 Feb 2020 18:16:00 +0100

A 4.7 magnitude earthquake hit central Greece at 11.24 am local time on Thursday. The epicenter was in the Pindos mountains between Karditsa and Arta. According to the Athens Geodynamic Institute, the quake was recorded at a depth of nine kilometers (5.6 miles). There are no reports of any damage from today’s quake.

Earthquake strikes central Greece, no damage or injuries

Thu, 06 Feb 2020 13:44:00 +0100

ATHENS (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.7 struck central Greece on Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The Geodynamic Institute said the quake struck at 11:24 local time (0924 GMT) around 240 kilometers (150 miles) northwest of the capital,....

Earthquake strikes central Greece, no damage or injuries

Thu, 06 Feb 2020 13:35:00 +0100

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.7 struck central Greece on Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The Geodynamic Institute said the quake struck at 11:24 local time (0924 GMT) around 240 kilometers (150 miles) northwest of the capital, Athens, and nearly....

Earthquake strikes central Greece, no damage or injuries

Thu, 06 Feb 2020 13:24:00 +0100

ATHENS An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.7 struck central Greece on Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The Geodynamic Institute said the quake struck at 11:24 local time (0924 GMT) around 240 kilometers (150 miles) northwest of the capital, Athens, and....

Earthquake strikes central Greece, no damage or injuries

Thu, 06 Feb 2020 13:13:00 +0100

Earthquake strikes central Greece, no damage or injuries

Thu, 06 Feb 2020 13:03:00 +0100

Earthquake strikes central Greece, no damage or injuries

Thu, 06 Feb 2020 12:48:00 +0100

Earthquake strikes central Greece, no damage or injuries

Thu, 06 Feb 2020 12:28:00 +0100

Earthquake strikes central Greece, no damage or injuries

Thu, 06 Feb 2020 12:22:00 +0100

ATHENS — (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.7 struck central Greece on Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The Geodynamic Institute said the quake struck at 11:24 local time (0924 GMT) around 240 kilometers (150 miles) northwest of the capital,....

Earthquake strikes central Greece, no damage or injuries

Thu, 06 Feb 2020 12:10:00 +0100

ATHENS -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.7 struck central Greece on Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The Geodynamic Institute said the quake struck at 11:24 local time (0924 GMT) around 240 kilometers (150 miles) northwest of the capital, Athens,....

Earthquake strikes central Greece, no damage or injuries

Thu, 06 Feb 2020 12:08:00 +0100

The Geodynamic Institute said the quake struck at 11:24 local time (0924 GMT) around 240 kilometers (150 miles) northwest of the capital, Athens, and nearly 40 kilometers (25 miles) east of the western town of Arta. The U.S. Geological Survey gave the preliminary magnitude as 5.

Earthquake Jolts Central Greece

Thu, 06 Feb 2020 11:57:00 +0100

A 4.7 magnitude earthquake hit central Greece at 11.24 am local time on Thursday. The epicenter was at the Pindos mountains between Karditsa and Arta. According to the Athens Geodynamic Institute, the quake was recorded at a 9 kilometer depth. There are no reports of damages.

AP - BC-EU--Greece-Earthquake, 0134

Thu, 06 Feb 2020 11:56:00 +0100

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Earthquake strikes central Greece, no damage or injuries

Thu, 06 Feb 2020 11:47:00 +0100

ATHENS, Greece - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.7 struck central Greece on Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The Geodynamic Institute said the quake struck at 11:24 local time (0924 GMT) around 240 kilometres (150 miles) northwest of the capital,....

Earthquake Jolts Central Greece

Thu, 06 Feb 2020 11:46:00 +0100

Earthquake measuring 5.2 on Richter shakes central Greece: EMSC

Thu, 06 Feb 2020 11:34:00 +0100

ATHENS, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale jolted central Greece on Thursday with the epicenter located between the cities of Karditsa and Arta, according to the European Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC).

Moderate quake shakes central Greece

Thu, 06 Feb 2020 11:05:00 +0100

TAGS: Earthquake A tremor measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale shook the region of Karditsa, central Greece, on Thursday morning, based on a preliminary reading by Athens’ Geodynamic Institute. The epicenter of the earthquake, recorded at 11.24 a.m. was located 24 kilometres from Neohori and 42....

US photographer Robert McCabe made an honorary Greek citizen

Wed, 05 Feb 2020 22:44:00 +0100

Any reminder that there are good and conscientious people doing their jobs for the Greek state diligently in the right post is good news that gives hope. Greece's consul general in Boston, Stratos Efthymiou, is one such person, a young and active diplomat who has breathed new life into the post since taking over in 2017.

Ants can save millions from earthquakes

Fri, 31 Jan 2020 19:28:00 +0100

; Credit: © Shutterstock. When California and Japan, Indonesia, Italy and Greece next suffer the worst of earthquakes, there is help already available, apart from the early warning seismology that tsunami warning centres (TWCs) provide. German research with HR cameras has begun to check these....

Potential tsunami most likely to hit populated eastern coast of Malta, study shows

Fri, 31 Jan 2020 14:34:00 +0100

Low-lying areas in Mellieħa, Xemxija, Salini, Gzira, Msida, Marsascala, St Thomas Bay, Marsaxlokk and Birzebbuga will be the most adversely hit parts of Malta if a tsunami were to occur, a study shows. The study was conducted by the Marine Geology and Seafloor Surveying group within the Department....

New Quake Shakes Greek Island of Karpathos

Thu, 30 Jan 2020 17:11:00 +0100

An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale shook the Eastern Dodecanese islands at 13:24 local time (11:24 UTC) on Thursday. The epicenter of the temblor was located in the sea some 57 kilometers (35 miles) east of the Aegean island of Karpathos , according to the Geodynamics Institute of the Athens National Observatory.

Earthquakes today: Jamaica, Papua New Guinea and Greece hit by huge quakes

Wed, 29 Jan 2020 22:02:00 +0100

One area still reeling from a huge earthquake is Turkey which on Friday, January 24 was hit by a magnitude-6.7 quake. This killed at least 38 people and injured more than 1,600 when it hit 21 miles from Elazig. Buildings crumbled into rubble, leaving thousands homeless with 45 survivors pulled from the debris in the days since.

'Foreign interference needs to be removed from Libya'

Wed, 29 Jan 2020 04:53:00 +0100

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan discussed developments in Libya and Syria's northwestern Idlib province in a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump, the White House said Tuesday. "The two leaders discussed the need to eliminate foreign interference and maintain the cease-fire in Libya," White House spokesman Judd Deere said on Twitter.

DANGER TREMOR 5.5 earthquake strikes off coast of Greek tourist hotspots

Wed, 29 Jan 2020 04:42:00 +0100

A 5.5 magnitude earthquake has hit off the coast of Greece, close to tourist hot spots in Kos and Rhodes. The powerful tremor struck 44 miles east of the island of Karpathos at around 4pm GMT. The islands were hit with 5.5 magnitude tremors today, close to popular tourist spots Credit: Getty -....