An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale was registered in the White (Aegean) Sea about 30 km southeast of Kareia, the administrative center of Mount Athos, on January 16 at 11:48 a.m., seismic laboratories said. of Greece, Bulgaria and other countries. Half an hour later, the Greek Seismological Service reported another 4.4 magnitude earthquake in the same place near the Athos Peninsula.
According to the website of the National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the magnitude of this earthquake was 5.5 on the Richter scale and in the next two hours the laboratory instruments recorded a series of weaker tremors. Such weaker earthquakes have occurred later in the Pernik region of Bulgaria, as well as in the Vrancea region of Romania.
There are no reports of destruction or casualties at Mount Athos.
