4.6R Quake Shakes SW Greece’s Achaia Prefecture

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.