Cracks and plaster fall caused a powerful earthquake of 5.3 Richter in Mount Athos in Mount Athos noted at noon on Saturday. According to the commander of Mount Athos, Alcibiades Stefanidis Checks began to the monasteries that are quite old, where problems were identified, a fall of polymers, and old chimneys, and wall cracks. He told ERT that there is nothing worrying. In fact, he stressed that a cosmic in the Pantocrator Monastery during the earthquake fell from his turmoil and hit his hand. Already rushed by EKAB To provide him with first aid, but he is fine in his health, just like all visitors.
“First of all to say we are fine. Do not worry about people, not to worry about people who have relatives of monks or relatives who visit or work on Mount Athos, “he initially said.
“If he heard of an ambulance who left the Health Center to go to the Pantokrator Monastery for a secular, this man has nothing, he was in an outdoor space, he was scared of the earthquake, he tried to run, he was confused, he fell and he hit his hand.” Stephanis, who stressed that checks on any other incident is ongoing.
“There are problems, plaster has fallen, chandeliers have moved, there are cracks in different places, some old chimneys, but there is nothing very worrying,” he said.
Simonos Petra Monastery was seriously damaged by the powerful earthquake of 5.3 on the Richter scale that shaken Mount Athos.
“We were very swinging! In the monastery from the earthquake the chimney fell, the chandelier fell into the bank, they have fallen into plasters, it has a lot of damage,” he told thestival.gr Monk of Simonos Petra.
Another monk who lives in the same monastery, speaking at thestival.gr, said: “It was the greatest earthquake we have felt. Earthquakes have been going on for a year now but that was the most worrying and constantly affecting aftershocks. It doesn’t stop and we’re all on the alert. “
Specifically they suffered damage:
- Constantinos Monastery showed cracks
- The Dionysius Monastery suffered minor damage
- The Holy Monastery of Simonos Petra suffered a decline in chimney and chandeliers
- Cracks and chimney fall in the Stavronikita Monastery of Stavronikita
- In the Holy Monastery of Zografou there were cracks and a decline in chimney.
Earthquake: Many areas of northern Greece were shaken
Note that the earthquake The 5.3 Richter occurred at noon on Saturday (07/06) 9 km of the Karys of Mount Athos. Many areas of northern Greece were shaken by the vibration. Reports say it was particularly noticeable in Thessaloniki, while residents of other areas, including Thassos and Kavala, also say they felt the earthquake.
Seven minutes after the 5.3 Richter earthquake, there were 3 3,8 and 2.9 -magnitude displacements respectively, with a slightly shifted 10km.
Lekkas for the Earthquake of 5.3 Richter
Reflected in the president of the president appeared OASP Efthimios Lekkas, Speaking to ERT, he pointed out that it is an earthquake that took place on the coastline of Mount Athos at a depth of 10 kilometers, which followed a series of seismic vibrations.
He stressed that the seismic activity on the spot was strange as the phenomenon had peaked between May and July last year and we thought it was extinguished. For the time being we see it returning with a larger earthquake. It is too early to appreciate the situation, within the hours we will study the phenomenon and return to more information because we will know what is happening.
Earthquake on Mount Athos: What does Papazachus appreciate
The assessment that the post -Mount Athos on Mount Athos Costas Papazachos did in the coming hours and days, stressing that the rift is not large but an annoying long -term earthquake.
“It is at the point in the area of the Sacred Monasteries of Xenophon and Dochiari that for many months we have a permanent seismic activity, which has insisted on several months in the area and today that has given 5.3 Richter. Important.