Magnitude 4.8 earthquake hits Mount Athos, no damage reported

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A 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck Mount Athos successful bluish Greece successful the aboriginal hours of Monday, but there were nary reports of injuries oregon damage.

The Athens Institute of Geodynamics said the quake deed astatine 4.20 a.m. section time, with its epicenter 11 km (7 miles) west-northwest of Karyes, the administrative superior of Mount Athos, astatine a extent of 12 km.

Mount Athos is location to medieval, male-only monastic communities. Greece, 1 of Europe’s astir earthquake-prone countries, lies connected the bound of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates, whose changeless enactment triggers predominant seismic activity.