Methoni

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is scheduled to visit the regions of Argolida, Arcadia, and Messinia in the Peloponnese on Friday, as part of his pre-election engagements.

In the morning, Mitsotakis will attend the signing of a contract for the Argos-Nafplio road connection via the A7 motorway. Following that, he will visit Mycenae and Nafplio.

A 4.1 magnitude earthquake was recorded off the coast of Methoni, in the southern Peloponnese, on Friday afternoon at 2.44 p.m. according to the Geodynamic Institute of the Athens National Observatory.

The quake's epicenter was located 20 kilometers southwest of Methoni, at a depth of 6 kilometers.

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An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 is reported not far from the coast of the Greek Peloponnese Peninsula, reports TASS and BGNES.
 
The epicenter of the underground quake was 27 km west of the town of Methoni and 69 km southwest of the town of Kalamata. The earthquake was 30 km deep.
 
There is no information about injured and destruction.

A 4.5 magnitude earthquake was felt in the town of Methoni on the southeastern coast of the Peloponnese a little after 3pm, Thursday. The epicentre of the tremor was 188km south of the town in the sea. The Athens Geodynamic Institute registered the earthquake as 4.5 on the Richter scale, while the Euro-Mediterranean seismological centre recorded it as 4.8. There were no reports of damage.

A moderate tremor measuring between 4.3-4.5 on the Richter scale rattled towns and villages in Messinia and Ilia in the southwestern Peloponnese on Friday afternoon.

According to the Geodynamic Institute in Athens, the 4.3-scale earthquake struck off the seaside village of Methoni.

A coast guard patrol on Saturday responded to a distress call from a yacht carrying 130 migrants off the coast of the seaside village of Methoni in the southwestern Peloponnese.

A few of the passengers had managed to reach the shore after the craft managed to anchor securely in the village's harbor.

Marine geophysicists from the Laboratory of Marine Geology and Physical Oceanography at the University of Patras conducted a marine geophysical and hydrographic survey off Methoni, Greece, in the Peloponnese. The survey was conducted under the auspices of the Greek Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities (Ministry of Culture and Sports), with support from Kongsberg Maritime.