An earthquake measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale in magnitude was recorded at 22.48 (20.48 GMT) on Saturday evening and pinpointed at six kilometers west-southwest of the mountainous town of Kalavryta.
The tremor was felt throughout Achaia prefecture in southwest Greece and even in the greater Athens-Piraeus area’s western districts.
According to a revised estimate by the Athens Observatory’s Geodynamic institute, the quake’s focal depth was 24.3 kilometers.
Earlier, a mild earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale was recorded at 06.47 (04.47 GMT) on Saturday morning in a sea region 113 kilometers southwest of the Gerolimena site of Laconia prefecture, in extreme southern Greece (315 kilometers southwest of Athens), according to the Geodynamic Institute.