Extensive damage is seen from the June 7 earthquake in a home in the village of Dafnousa in northern Evia. [John Liakos/InTime News]
Seismologists monitoring northern Evia said the aftershock sequence following Sunday’s 5.2-magnitude earthquake is progressing normally, though five homes have been declared uninhabitable and two churches sustained major damage. Prokopi high school suffered damage to its surrounding grounds.
Athanasios Ganas, research director at the Geodynamics Institute of the National Observatory of Athens, noted the quake struck a previously unmapped fault with a maximum potential of 5.5 magnitude – too limited to trigger the larger faults beneath the Evian Gulf.
Scientists recorded 174 aftershocks following the main shock, which struck at 1.02 p.m. Authorities received 96 damage inspection requests, with roughly 30 completed by Monday. All roads remain open and public services are functioning normally. Displaced residents are sheltering with relatives or at a hostel in Prokopi.
