“It’s a fault on the northern coast of Skiathos. We are certain that it’s a fault that has been activated now and it doesn’t have large dimensions. It cannot produce a very large earthquake. We are monitoring it, but it doesn’t concern us,” the president of the Earthquake Planning and Protection Organization (EPPO), Efthymis Lekkas, initially told ERT regarding the two earthquakes measuring 4.7 and 4.9 on the Richter scale, emphasizing that they are not worried, while referring to a fault that has now become active.
Lekkas: “We know the area well, we have mapped all the data”
“The phenomenon is manifesting in the northeastern and northwestern areas of the island. I don’t think there’s a problem. The Sporades and Maliakos Gulf are areas where the Anatolian fault terminates, but nothing suggests that this fault has been affected. We know the area well, we have mapped all the data. There’s a small probability for an earthquake of similar magnitude, but the most likely scenario is that we’ll have several earthquakes of smaller magnitude.”
