The director of the Geodynamic Institute of the National Observatory of Athens, Vassilis Karastathis, about the 6.1 -magnitude Richter scale of the Richter scale that occurred this morning in the maritime area north of Crete, speaks of a typical earthquake of the Athens National Observatory of Athens.

Speaking to RES-EIA Mr. Karastathis points out that The focus of the strong earthquake was at a distance from the residential zones, which in combination with the very depth contributed to the “minimum impact”.

“The positive point is that the earthquake was intermediate depth, it was in 60 km deepwhich gives him some safety great about his impact on construction and more generally to the residential zones, which were noted at a long distance from the focus. That is, it was the focus within the marine space and at least 55 kilometers from the closest residential zone. So we have two factors that have worked so that we have little impact from such a powerful earthquake, first that the distance from the inhabited zones was long and secondly that the depth was very high. Such a depth first ensures that we will have no problem with tsunami issues etc, “Mr Karastathis told RES-EIA.

As she explains right now, they do not expect a rich post -seismic sequence “Why Usually these earthquakes are not followed by many aftershocks“

“It seems that it is probably a typical earthquake of this category, the intermediate depth, I think that the most likely scenario is to evolve exactly as it seems to evolve with a very poor post -seismic sequence. Beyond that we will watch the phenomenon, “he notes.