Several micro-earthquakes, that is earthquakes of low magnitude, stroke western Attica late on Tuesday, with the highest to be 2.6 and 3 on the Richter scale.
The phenomenon worried the residents of the affected areas, while seismologists appeared reassuring.
The majority of tremors were centered in Elefsina and Mandra.
“All this activity comes from the western end of the Fyli fault or the Parnitha fault,” said Efthimios Lekkas, president of the Greek Earthquake Planning & Protection Organization, about the s0-called “micro-earthquakes” on Tuesday.
“After 10 p.m., we had a barrage of seismic tremors from the Mandra area and the wider area of Western Attica, that is, about 15 small-magnitude seismic tremors. The largest had a magnitude of 2.7. The tremors were strongly felt by residents of the areas of Western Attica and within the Attica Basin,” Lekkas told state broadcaster ERT.
He estimated that this section of the fault does not have the capacity to produce larger earthquakes and pointed out that the tremors occurred at the end of the fault.
” I think that it can probably give a little more, that is, around 3.5 on the Richter scale, but it has long since it exhausted its potential to give a major earthquake that would concern us,” Lekkas added.
He stressed that “there is no cause for concern from the seismic activity we had last night.”
Other seismologists like Gerasimos Papadopoulos see a “small activation of the Fyli fault.”
