A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.1 hit Greece early this Wednesday, May 14, with an epicenter located in the sea 15 kilometers from the island of Kassos, in the Aegean Sea, according to the American Institute of Geophysics (USGS).
The earthquake occurred at a depth of 78 kilometers at 1:51 (10:51 French time). There is no information available at this stage about any victim or damage.
The Epicenter of the earthquake is one hundred kilometers from the coast of Crete and the island of Santorini.
According to the Reuters news agency, the inhabitants of Egypt also felt the earthquake, the National Institute for Astronomy and Geophysics Research in the country, since any victim or any material damage notices.
Already several thousand tremors at the beginning of 2025
The region of the island of Santorini in the Aegean Sea, a high tourist tourist place, had experienced an exceptional seismic activity in January and February with thousands of tremors that had scared part of the inhabitants.
Located in several geological defects in the Mediterranean of the southeast of southeast, Greece is regularly affected by earthquakes. The last mortal earthquake in the archipelago took place in October 2020 on the island of Samos, between Greece and Türkiye. With a magnitude of 7, this telluric shield had killed two dead in Samos and more than 100 in Izmir, a Turkish port city.
Source: BFM TV
