The Prime Minister Antonis Samaras decided to visit and spend the night on the island of Kefalonia on his way back from Brussels, in order to survey the damages caused by the powerful earthquake.
Meanwhile seismologists have reported that three days after what appears to have been the main earthquake, the aftershocks are still rather powerful. The latest aftershocks measured on Wednesday morning measured 4.6, 4.3 and 4.0 on the Richter scale.
Geology professor at the University of Athens Efthimios Lekkas claimed that to have located the seismic fault and appeared certain that Sunday’s 5.8 Richter quake was the main event and that the aftershocks will gradually subside.
This was also confirmed by professor of seismology at the University of Thessaloniki Kostas Papazachos and the director of studies at the Geodynamic Institute Gerasimos Papadopoulos, who noted that earthquake’s main sequence status will be confirmed on Sunday, unless the post-earthquake activity changes dramatically.
