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Is it safe to travel to Crete? What you need to know after earthquake sparks tsunami warning for Greek island - Authorities ...
A strong 6.1 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Crete, triggering tsunami warnings and emergency measures ...
Tsunami warning issued after magnitude 6 quake hits islands in Greece - The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC ...
A strong, 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck in the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday, according to the United States Geological ...
Brits in parts of Greece are advised to switch on a specific setting on their phones as the country was hit by a 6.1 ...
Charalambos Fasoulas, a geologist from the Natural History Museum of Crete, said earthquakes in Greece "do not usually give many and large aftershocks". He added: “Usually these earthquakes are ...
Thursday morning’s 6.1 magnitude quake off the coast of Crete is the second strong quake to hit Greece within days. Last Wednesday, a magnitude 5.9 earthquake occurred about 48 kilometres south ...
It came after a powerful 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck near the coast of Crete last week. Efthymios Lekkas, head of Greece’s Earthquake Planning and Protection Organisation, said the ...
A large 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Crete on Thursday (May 22), barely ... told Euronews that "every time you go to Greece, you are going to a seismically active region".
The Greek island of Crete and its surrounding region have long been known as one of Europe’s most earthquake-prone zones.
Another high-magnitude earthquake has hit the Greek holiday island of Crete, just days after a similar 6.1 magnitude ...
Greece’s civil protection minister Ioannis Kefalogiannis is travelling to Crete to assess the damage from the earthquake. "Fortunately, initial reports indicate that due to its significant depth ...