A moderate earthquake with a magnitude measured at 5.1 on the Richter scale was recorded in a sea region of the southern Aegean at the center of now global attention due to more than a week of intense seismic activity. The quake was felt more than 230 kilometers away in the greater Athens in the early morning hours of Tuesday, local time.
The tremor was recorded at 00.37 (22.37 GMT) on Tuesday, just after midnight, and pinpointed at 16 kilometers south of the now oft-cited Arkesini site on the island of Amorgos. The focal depth was measured at six kilometers.
The quake was the second most intense of the last 24 hours, with a 5.3R quake off the island of Santorini recorded some two hours earlier, at 22.16 (20.16 GMT), and with an epicenter 14 kilometers south, southwest from Amorgos.
A rectangular-shaped sea region between the Cyclades islands of Santorini, Amorgos, Ios and Anafi has generated more than 9,000 earthquakes, including several moderate tremors above 5R, since late last month.
