Diane Marshall answers phones at the Alaska Earthquake Information Center at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks as seismographs record earthquake data, Sunday, Nov. 3, 2002, in Fairbanks, Alaska. A major earthquake rocked a sparsely populated area of interior Alaska early Sunday afternoon, cracking highways and roads, knocking over fuel tanks and shaking rural homes. The magnitude 7.9 quake, centered 90 miles south of Fairbanks, was strongly felt in Anchorage about 270 miles to the south. (AP Photo/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, John Hagen) {{ FAIRBANKS ALASKA EARTHQUAKE }}
The Institute of Geodynamics at the Athens Observatory announced that an earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale...
The Institute of Geodynamics at the Athens Observatory announced that an earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale occurred early on Thursday morning off the coast of Mytilene.
According to the announcement, the tremor occurred about 40 kilometers southwest of the Aegean island and about 90 kilometers off Turkish shores. The earthquake took place at a rather major depth, at about 47 kilometers.