Cephalonia

An undersea quake, measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale, struck the area between Kyllini and Cephalonia in the Ionian Sea at around 8 a.m. on Monday.

According to the Athens Observatory's Geodynamic Institute, the quake's epicenter was located eight kilometers northwest of Kyllini.

There were no reports of damage or injuries.
 

A 56-year-old British tourist has died during an inflatable sofa ride on the Ionian island of Cephalonia, coast guard officials said Wednesday.

Initial reports suggest the 56-year-old died of a heart attack.

Two more passengers on the craft, also holidaymakers from Britain, were said to be in good health.

A boat carrying 38 illegal migrants communicate a distress signal off the coast of the island of Kefalonia in the Ionian Sea, Saturday morning. According to sources, there are 13 children among the people on the boat who are in urgent need of medical attention. Ambulances have converged on the island’s port to take those in need of care to hospital.

In the first four years of its 40-year contract with the Greek state, Fraport Greece is planning to invest a sum of 400 million euros in the 14 regional airports it will take control of next month, according to the investment plan it released on Wednesday. The amount announced is 70 million euros higher than what the contract required.

The European Commission has approved the transfer of 14 Greek airports to a German-led consortium and says it's now up to Greece to finalize the deal, a key element of the country's bailout program.

The Commission says the 1.23-billion-euro agreement can go ahead as it did not involve state aid, was transparent and in line with market conditions.

Thomas W. Gallant, professor of Modern Greek History and Archaeology at the University of San Diego, California, will deliver a lecture titled "Murder on Black Mountain: Love and Death on a 19th Century Greek Island" at the International Center for Hellenic and Mediterranean Studies (DIKEMES) on Monday, March 13.

A 3.5 magnitude earthquake rocked the island of Kefalonia off the west coast of Greece, Wednesday at 11.15am. The tremor occurred to the south of Lixouri and the epicenter was located 14km from Argostoli and had a depth of 5km. No damage was reported. Kefalonia and the Ionian islands are one of the most seismogenic zones in Greece.

The disruptions caused by the extended strike by Greek seamen was overcome on Friday by farmers on Naxos who used fishing boats to transport supplies including dairy products to neighboring Aegean islands, while two ferry companies (Ionian Group and Kefalonian Lines) operating the Zakynthos-Kyllini line broke the strike with two morning sailings on the pretext there was an emergency on the isla

European lawmakers on Tuesday approved funding of over 1.5 million euros to assist three Greek islands that suffered widespread damage in a 6.1-Richter earthquake in November 2015.

"He should have been hanged in Syntagma Square, in Athens.  But, unfortunately, the death penalty has been abolished in Greece!" said the hyper taxi driver who was driving us back to Athens from the port of Astakos, just across the Ionian Sea islands of Lefkas, Kephalonia and Ithaki, in the western part of Greece.