Strong quake strikes Crete

[dipsydoodle]

A strong earthquake struck the southern Greek island of Crete Friday, rattling buildings as far away as Egypt and Turkey. Local police said they had no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

The quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 and struck off the southern coast of Crete at 4:29 p.m. (1329 GMT, 8:29 EDT), the Athens Geological Institute and the German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, Germany, said. The U.S. Geological Survey gave a slightly lower preliminary magnitude of 5.9. Magnitudes recorded by geological institutes often differ.

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The quake was felt as far away as Cairo across the Mediterranean Sea, and the Turkish news agency Anatolia said it also caused panic in the Turkish resorts of Bodrum, Fethiye and Marmaris.

"It was a strong earthquake in a region that is in the eastern section of area known as the Aegean Arc," said Manolis Skordilis, Associate Professor of Seismology at the University of Thessaloniki in northern Greece.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/04/01/strong-quake-strikes-crete.html

edit to add link which I forgot.....doh

That arc is the one which includes Santorini which was thought to be the real cause of the parting of the Red Sea and the background to The Exodus.

[elleng]

1. Swell. Daughter going to Santorini for honeymoon, in September.

[dipsydoodle]

2. Oh !

That place has got an amazing history. I wish them well.

:hi:

General reading : http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article601300.ece

[elleng]

3. Thanks. Its one of their dreams.

OH!!!!

'In The Exodus Decoded, a 90-minute documentary that will be shown in America this month, Cameron and Simcha Jacobovici, the Canadian film producer, claim a volcanic eruption on the Greek archipelago of Santorini triggered a chain of natural catastrophes recorded in the Bible as the 10 plagues that God visited upon Egypt as punishment for enslaving the Jews.

Cameron believes the parting of the Red Sea may have been a tsunami that destroyed the pharaoh’s army as it pursued the escaping Jews.'

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Where are their nuke plants?

[dipsydoodle]

5. There is a post elsewhere about Turkey

and their plans for a reactor. Turkey is on the same fault line. :(

[enuegii]

6. The Santorini earthquake is "thought to be the real cause of the parting of the Red Sea ...

and the background to The Exodus" only by those who watch the History Channel and take it seriously.

[B Calm]

7. Thanks to my stint in the US Navy, I've been to Crete, but I remember Corfu

the most. Someday I would love to take my wife to the Greek Isles.