Small aftershock shakes Limassol

AFTERSHOCKS from last August’s earthquake are still hitting Limassol.

The latest tremor, at 3,4 on the Richter scale, was felt on Sunday at 7.37 pm. The epicentre of the quake was in the Yerasa area, 15 km north of the city.

Kyriacos Solomis, of the Nicosia Geological Surveys Department, told the Cyprus Mail that the quake was “one of the hundreds which were felt in the area in the last five months” by highly sensitive seismological equipment.

Very few people in Limassol were affected by the small tremor. One local telephoned Solomis to find out whether the shaking was in fact a quake or just a lorry passing.

Solomis explained that this movement was part of the normal seismicity of the area and that frequent aftershocks such as Sunday’s were common after larger earthquakes.

In the aftermath of the 1996 earthquake in Paphos, there were over 3,000 aftershocks.

Regarding more serious earthquakes in the near future, he said that, “according to the information and data, we don’t expect any in this area.”

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