Kerkira, Greece, Is Shaken By Earthquake (24/02/2008)
On the 24th of February, at 01:07 Local time, a new earthquake, 5km South of the City of Kerkira (at Kerkira island, Greece). The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre gave an earthquake reading of 3.5 in the Richter scale. No casualties were reported only minor damages inside houses from items falling. Normally such a low magnitude earthquake, like the one in Kerkira today would pass un-noticed but it is feared that is may be linked to the intense seismic activity in Greece over the past 2 months. Some scientists fear that this may lead to earthquakes of larger magnitude.
Update: According to Geologists, this earthquake is not linked with the seismic activity that has been upsetting southern Greece the past 2 months.
Update 2: On the radios and TVs scientists are tried to reassure people that the intense seismic activity that has been recorded in Greece over the past 2 months, will not cause an even larger earthquake in the region. That does not mean that there will never be anymore earthquakes in the region, sometime in the future.
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