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Two strong 4.4 magnitude earthquakes shook Amorgos, within two minutes

The tremors occurred a few minutes apart

Newsroom February 13 06:29

Two earthquakes occurred on Thursday afternoon (13/2) in the sea area between Amorgos and Santorini. The earthquakes occurred less than 3 minutes apart.

According to the automatic solution from the Geodynamic Institute, both earthquakes were of magnitude 4.4 on the Richter scale.

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The first earthquake occurred at 17:40 and the second at 17:42 south, southwest of Arkesini Amorgos.

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