Posts Tagged ‘Athens’

Athens is Again Shaken by Earthquake February 17th

Sunday, February 17, 2008 1:40 No Comments

February 17th, time 03:33, and earthquake with a 4.4 magnitude hit in north Athens in the area of Fili, near mount Parnitha. This is not a large earthquake and people hardly realized it but considering the repeated seismic activity of the last 2 months in the Greek area (see previous 1, 2, 3). Again I [...]

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Earthquake Prediction Techniques for Greece and the World

Friday, February 15, 2008 13:00 2 Comments

Greece has been shaking up recently by earthquake after earthquake. Yesterday the 4th earthquake within 1.5 months (see previous 1, 2, 3), of a 6.5 magnitude had an epicenter south of the city of Kalamata.

This seismic activity has been scientifically predicted by the V.A.N team of Professor P. A. Varotsos of the University of Athens, [...]

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Best Airports to Sleep

Monday, February 11, 2008 17:36 No Comments

[Athens Airport photo by Leonid Mamchenkov]
All around the Internet you will see a lot of strange things being voted for and reviewed. Something caught my eye was this strange list of “Best airports to sleep”. The sleepinginairports.com conducts a research/review of airports and what to expect there.
About 5,000 people have participate in the voting [...]

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Monopoly World Edition: Vote For Your City

Saturday, February 9, 2008 16:40 No Comments

Twenty days are left until the end of the voting that Hasbro has started in order to choose the 20 most popular cities in the new world edition of Monopoly.
One more time People around the world are called to give a tough battle to keep their favorite cities included in the world edition. There is [...]

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New Greek Earthquake - 29th January - 5 Richter

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 15:41 No Comments

The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre gave an earthquake reading of 5 in the Richter scale and a location/epicenter of SouthEast of the island of Aigina, few kilometers from Athens.
So far there are no reports of any damages or casualties

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Earthquake hits Greece

Sunday, January 6, 2008 13:49 No Comments

At 7:14 am local time (5:14 GMT) an earthquake of 6.5 magnitude hit 129 km south west of Athens. The earthquake epicenter was in the sea and at a depth of 51 km. So far there are no reports of any casualties or damages. It has been reported that the shock was felt [...]

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