The quake had a depth of just five kilometres (3.1 miles) and an epicentre 24 kilometres northeast of the Greek capital. "The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was felt across the capital and as far as Lamia and Corinth," Efthymios Lekkas, head of Greece's state earthquake planning and protection organisation told state television ERT. The national observatory had initially given a 4.2 magnitude for the quake. Lekkas said the area of the epicentre was characterised by "small faults that don't have the ability to cause something greater." In July, a 6.7-magnitude quake killed two people and injured hundreds on the tourist island of Kos and across the Aegean Sea in the Turkish resort of Bodrum.

Source: The Nation Bangkok January 15, 2018 21:22 UTC