Elassona: Strong earthquake 5.9 Richter

Powerful earthquake happened at 8:38 am on Thursday night in your area Elassona.

According to your automatic solution Geodynamic Institute, the magnitude of the earthquake was 5.9 on the Richter scale.

The epicenter is 16 km southwest of Elassona and the focal depth is estimated at 11.3 km.

At 5.9 Richter gives the intensity of the earthquake and Euro-Mediterranean Institute with an epicenter 17 km west of Tyrnavos and a focal depth of 11 km.

Other tremors followed, with a stronger one at 9:23 pm, intensity 5.1 Richter with an epicenter of 21 km southwest of Elassona and a depth of 10.4 km.

To activate an unknown branch of the fault that gave the earthquake yesterday in Elassona spoke the protothema.gr the president of OASP, professor of geology at EKPA, Efthymios Lekkas. “It is a separate earthquake in this sense, but it remains in the post-earthquake sequence. We are watching the development very closely, especially in the area north of the town of Amouri. “ As Mr. Lekkas, who was in Elassona yesterday, said, there are some first reports of damage, mainly in buildings that had already been affected by yesterday’s earthquake.

As indicated in protothema.gr o Director of the Geodynamic Institute Akis Tselentis the vibration is part of the expected sequence of aftershocks.

Further north relative to the epicenter of yesterday’s earthquake is the epicenter of today’s vibration. “A fault more to the north was activated, in Kefalovryso, Elassona. We go to the place to see the consequences, but we are very worried”, says in protothema.gr the governor of Thessaly Costas Agorastos.

The seismologist Gerasimos Papadopoulos He said he was not expecting an earthquake bigger than him. However, Mr. Papadopoulos added that he is very concerned about the effects of the vibration tonight on a “wounded area”.

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