Efthimios Lekkas

The professor of Natural Disaster Management at the University of Athens (EKPA) Efthimios Lekkas appeared reassuring about the 4.5 magnitude earthquake on Monday night in Evia.

A 4.7 magnitude earthquake occurred outside Kyllini.

According to sources from the Geodynamic Institute of the National Observatory of Athens, the epicenter of the earthquake was located 12 km. 12 km southwest of Andravida.

Weather events and patterns in the Mediterranean indicate that the region, including Greece, will experience a summer as hot if not hotter than the last, which brought successive heatwaves and raised the climate change alarm. 

The island of Kos became the first region of Greece to install electronic signs alerting to a possible tsunami, but a local hotelier association complained the signs are "terrorizing" tourists.

A strong earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale, according to initial reports, at approximately 2:13pm shook the Greek capital for approximately 15 seconds.

The first reports from seismologists indicated that that the epicentre was four kilometres from Magoula, 23 kilometres northwest of Athens.

Seismic experts are monitoring the area of Ileia in the Peloponnese following Monday's moderate quake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale, Efthimios Lekkas, head of Greece's Earthquake Planning and Protection Organization and director of the Geology and Geoenvironment Faculty at Athens University, told ANT1 TV on Tuesday.

Local businesspeople on Zakynthos are putting pressure on mayor Pavlos Kolokotsas to allow full access to the famous Navagio (shipwreck) beach on the island's northwestern coast, where a landslide in September last year injured one tourist.

Seven months after the landslide at the iconic Navagio (shipwreck) beach on the Ionian island of Zakynthos which left one tourist injured, a geology expert said Greek authorities are ready to install safety measures to protect visitors from potential danger.

The head of Greece's Earthquake Planning and Protection Organisation (EPPO), Geology Professor Efthimios Lekkas, responded to the assertion of SYRIZA MP Yannis Tsironis that the island of Kastelorizo is "as Greek as can be" but is "not in the Aegean Sea" but rather in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Dozens of aftershocks have rattled the Ionian island of Zakynthos and regions further afield following a powerful earthquake on Friday morning.

The Geodynamic Institute of Athens said the largest quake measured 4.0 on the Richter scale.