Moderately strong quake rattles island of Hydra

A moderately strong earthquake with preliminary magnitude 3.4 shook the land of Hydra earlier dawn Wednesday but nary harm oregon injuries were reported.

The Athens Geodynamic Institute said the undersea quake occurred 5.5 kilometers northwest of Hydra, betwixt the land and the northeastern Peloponnese, astatine a extent of 14.8 kilometers.

Earthquakes are very communal successful Greece, which is successful 1 of the astir seismically progressive parts of the world, but seldom origin terrible harm oregon deaths.

In 1999, a magnitude 5.9 quake adjacent Athens killed 143 people.