July 23, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics, Turkey-GR
Tension between Greece and Turkey has been rising in the Aegean Sea again in the last 24 hours, after Ankara deployed warships just outside the Greek territorial waters between the islands of Kasos and Karpathos. The Turkish warships are monitoring the Italian research vessel “Ievoli Relume,” which is conducting surveys …
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December 29, 2023
FEATURED, Social, Society
A 65-year-old patient man died while he was waiting for an ambulance airlift from the island of Karpathos to the neighboring Rhodes. According to the man’s family, the transferred was delayed due to technical problems at Karpathos airport as well as some mismanagement of the airlift from ambulance service and …
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June 6, 2023
animals, FEATURED, News
An unprecedented rescue of two donkeys by sea took place on Monday afternoon on a remote beach in northern Karpathos within the Natura 2000 protected area. Τhe two animals were spotted on the remote beach by fishermen who called authorities. Prompt was the response of the local authorities, the Fire …
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December 5, 2022
FEATURED, Tourism, Travel
The Greek island of Karpathos in the south Aegean Sea is included in the National Geographic’s annual list of the world’s 25 most impressive, “breathtaking destinations for 2023.” Karpathos is the only area in Greece included in the National Geographic’s subcategory of preserving local communities. The National Geographic refers to …
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June 3, 2022
Earthquake, FEATURED, Society
An earthquake shook the island of Rhodes with a magnidute of 4.7 on the Richter scale at 6:48 early Friday evening. The earthquake epicenter was located in the sea areas 16 km West-South-West of Katavia and its focal depth was 17.5 km. The tremor was felt in the south of …
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October 19, 2021
Earthquake, FEATURED
Greek seismlologists appear reassuring about the powerful earthquake that jolted with 6.1 on the Richter scale the island of Karthathos in the southern Aegean Sea on Tuesday morning. The earthquake occurred at 08:32 a.m. Its epicenter was located in the sea area 127 km south-east off Karpathos and at a …
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November 9, 2020
weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued a weather warning of heavy rainfall and thunderstorms, possible hail fall and locally stormy wind. EMY said in its warning that the weather deterioration will affect the island of Crete as well as the Dodecanese with intense weather phenomena, , especially the south parts …
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June 1, 2020
Greece, Politics
The Turkish ambassador in Athens was summoned to the Greek Foreign Ministry on Monday and was handed out a demarche, a protest note, about Ankara’s plans to start drilling off the islands of Rhodes, Karpathos and Crete. A few hours earlier, Foreign Affairs Minister, Nikos Dendias, had underlined that Greece …
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June 1, 2020
Turkey-GR
Turkey plans to start drilling south of the Greek islands of Crete, Karpathos, Kasos and Rhodes, claiming it is justified to do so according to its maritime boundaries with the Tripolis-based government in Libya. Requests for drilling submitted by the company Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) to the General Directorate of …
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May 19, 2020
Earthquake
Seismologists in Greece appear reassuring about the intense seismic activity south of the island of Crete. The magnitude of earthquake that stroke at 2:22 a.m. on Tuesday was corrected from initial 5.2 R to 5.7R. Note, that earthquake magnitudes vary due to different seismological stations and institutes. That #earthquake sequence …
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March 19, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Coronavirus has reached also the Dodecanese, after a nurse at the Health Center on the remotes island of Karpathos was tested positive. “The first official case confirmed by the National Health Organization has been recorded on our island,” a statement issued by the management of the Health Center said on …
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February 14, 2020
Earthquake
An earthquake hit with 4.8 Richter the island of Karpathos early Friday evening. Its epicenter was in the maritime area, 39km North-West of the island. The focal depth of the tremor that stroke at 6:02 p.m. was 12.6 km. The tremor was strong and was felt also on the islands …
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January 30, 2020
Earthquake
The island of Karpathos and the south Dodecanese have been shaking on Thursday, with three earthquakes and aftershocks. The first two earthquakes hit off Karpathos early Thursday morning. The first tremor measured 5.1 on the Richter scale and the second 4 R. Anotherone with 5.8R followed in early afternoon. The first …
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December 11, 2019
Earthquake
An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale occurred between the islands of Crete and Karpathos two minutes before Tuesday, December 10, 2019. Its epicenter was in the sea area East of Crete, 40 km away from Sitia, 75 km from Agios Nikolaos and 123 km from Heraklio. It was …
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December 2, 2019
Greece, Turkey-GR
Turkey escalates its provocations and inflammatory rhetoric towards Greece by claiming that Greek islands in the East Aegean Sea, in general, and the small island of Kastellorizo, in particular, do not have a continental shelf and therefore are partly within Greek territorial waters. It is the first time, Ankara explicitly …
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August 28, 2019
Earthquake
An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale rattles the islands of Rhodes and Karpathos in the south-eastern Aegean Sea on Wednesday. The tremor occurred in the sea area between Rhodes and Karpathos at 02:58 early Wednesday afternoon. The epicenter was 46 km North-East of Karpathos and 98km South-West of …
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August 26, 2019
Very Mix
Two divers found a tragic death when they were trapped in an underwater cave in the sea area of Sokastro on the island of Karpathos. The Greek Coast recovered the body of one diver on Sunday, while the second body was recovers early Monday afternoon. The bodies were found in …
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August 4, 2019
Earthquake
An earthquake with magnitude 4.8 R rattled the island of Karpathos short before one o’ clock Saturday. Its epicenter was in the Aegean Sea, 71 km South-East off the island. No damages or injuries were reported. 4⃣5⃣ 🇬🇷 Σεισμός ML 4.5, 03/08 12:51, βάθος 10 χλμ, 92 χλμ ΝΑ από …
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March 31, 2019
weather
Heavy rainfalls that keep falling for hours on the islands of Kassos and Karpathos largely damaged the infrastructure in these two islands in the south Dodecanese. The extreme rainfalls started on Thursday midnight and continued until Friday, March 29. Tonnes of water came down mountains and hills, passed through the …
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February 1, 2019
Earthquake
Two earthquakes within three minutes rattled the island of Karpathos in the South Aegean Sea Friday noon. The tremors occurred hours after another earthquake had stroke the island of Zakynthos in the Ionian. The first earthquake stroke Karpathos with 4.1R at 12:29. Three minutes later, at 12:32, the second one …
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