Earthquakes in the Ionian Sea, specifically in Kefalonia, have been ongoing for the last few days, with tremors exceeding 3 degrees on the Richter scale.

Shortly after midnight on Tuesday, two more earthquakes shook the island – 3.6 and 3.8 Richter were recorded in the area of ​​Assos, within a few minutes.

The professor of seismology and director of the Geodynamic Institute, Akis Tselentis, with his post on social media, appears reassuring about the intense seismic activity in the area.

“The statistical analysis does not show that we have an aftershock sequence. We were almost certain that the phenomenon would remain confined to the same area and continue for several days with gradually decreasing seismic activity.

The possibility of having a big earthquake is therefore real (nature is not always 100% predictable) but extremely small to negligible. Personally I’m not worried,” the professor wrote.

The post of Akis Tselentis in detail

GOOD MORNING

“Earthquakes of Kefalonia”

The microseismic activity continued strongly during the last 24 hours. We have recorded a large number of micro-earthquakes above 1R as shown in the figure. The seismic activity is located in the same seismic area as before and has the characteristics of a series, i.e. a large number of micro-earthquakes with roughly similar small magnitudes.

The statistical analysis we have done does not show that we have a foreshock sequence. We were almost certain that the phenomenon would remain confined to the same seismogenic area characterized by a small NW-SE direction fault and would continue for several days with gradually decreasing seismic activity. The possibility of having a big earthquake is therefore real (nature is not always 100% predictable) but extremely small to negligible. Personally I’m not worried.