Abstract
STRONG earthquakes were experienced last week in the town of Ekaterini at the foot of Mount Olympus on the shores of the Gulf of Salonica in Greece. On the morning of February 1, several tremors and one or two earthquakes occurred to the accompaniment of loud and long-continued underground rumbling. Some houses collapsed. On February 2 the shocks continued, there being eighteen in all. About 120 buildings, including some schools, the law courts and the post office, collapsed or became severely damaged. The casualty numbers have not yet been published. Tents have been erected as temporary dwellings and the postal headquarters are reported to be temporarily in a tent. Medical supplies and anti-typhoid vaccines have been sent from Salonica. It will be remembered that a severe earthquake wrecked several villages in the Chalcidice district of Greece on the night of September 27–28, 1932. The epicentre was then estimated to have been between Salonica and Mount Athos (NATURE, October 8, 1932, p. 537), which is to the north-east of the present epicentres.
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Earthquakes in Greece. Nature 145, 219 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145219d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145219d0