Light Quake Jolts Cephalonia Early Friday

A light earthquake measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale jolted on Friday at 5.38 am the island of Cephalonia, Greece. According to the Athens Geodynamics Institute the quake’s epicentre was located at area of the recent tremors. In an interview for a local radio the seismologist Ephtimos Lekas said the earthquake was in result of the heightened seismic activity, which started on January 26 with a 5.9 magnitude quake, followed by many aftershocks.

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