22 Nov. 2024 Strong earthquake M 4.6 shook Mt Athos

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22 Nov. 2024 Strong M 4.6 earthquake 8 kilometers northwest of Mount Athos at a depth of 12.8 kilometers shook Mt Athos.

Halkidiki was shaken by two significant earthquakes, measuring 4.6 and 4.1 on the Richter scale, within 57 minutes of each other, with their epicenters near Mount Athos.

Affected countries: Bulgaria, Türkiye, Greece, and North Macedonia.

No damages have been reported so far. It should be noted that the area has been hit by tremors ever since August 7.
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Prognosis
Original research by athosforum.otg identified documents describing similar phenomena of catastrophic scale.
"1585, July 18, 02h, 40.2° N, 24.5° E, h =n, M=(7.0), Athos (VID)

In a note of a monk of the Vatopediou monastery, it is mentioned that on 18 July, Friday, of the year 1585, an earthquake fissured and pulled down most part of the walls. Many towers of monasteries collapsed in Proavlaka (Nea Roda), too. This earthquake is the largest ever known till then. In a note of a monk of the Iviron monastery, it is written that a strong earthquake pulled down the towers and fissured the churches of saint Mountain. The earth was moving every other day for 20 days and the shocks continued for 80 days. In a note of a monk of the Dionysiou monastery, it is written that a terrible earthquake occurred and the slates of the church fell down and its domes were torn. The towers at Hierissos fell down, too (Labros, 1910; Eustratiades and Arcadios, 1924; Maravelakis, 1937; Kadas, 1996, 1997)."
Source NOAA
https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/event-more-info/...

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