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Yep. It ruined my siesta.
It came from nowhere. A huge bang and severe shaking, then subsided quickly. Still having aftershocks. A 4.4 about five minutes ago.
No damage in our street, but hear there's been quiet a lot fallen masonry elsewhere in the city. Can confirm that the Parthenon is still standing - can see it from our balcony.
. Can confirm that the Parthenon is still standing - can see it from our balcony.
Ruins Marra, ruinsHope all OK. Can't help but think there would be some shoddy buildings around Athens.
posting that from your mams spare bedroom really
Depends if the location it hits has the infrastructure to deal with earthquakes. Does Athens? I have no real idea.5.1 isn't powerful tbf it's very minor
5.1 isn't powerful tbf it's very minor
Depends if the location it hits has the infrastructure to deal with earthquakes. Does Athens? I have no real idea.
Yeah i've experienced a few in california over the years which gets them regularly around the 4-6 mark and you barely notice them really it just feels like a trains going by underneath
I've never experienced a real earthquake, the one we had in the UK a few years ago interrupted/joined my dream for a second or so and woke me up. A mate of mine was in Kathmandu when they had the recent big one though, his description of it and then the aftermath is horrific.It was shallow and close to the city. I've experienced a 6.4 before, which went on for ages. But for sheer violence, the first couple of seconds of this one were worse.
We're in the fifth floor of an old apartment block. It feels pretty solid. The trouble is, in the city centre there are a lot of derelict buildings. Difficult to know where to run to if you're on the pavement and an earthquake hits. Saw a pic a few minutes ago of a street we were on this morning covered in masonry, including the cross from the top of a church (some Greeks are saying it's because the new PM is an atheist).
My mate said the aftershocks in Nepal were constant for days afterwards, some of them were around 7 in magnitude and they had hundreds over a week or so iirc. He said they could see trees in the distance swaying and then watch the effects coming towards them before it hit. Terrifying.One of the aftershocks was 4.4 which - like you say - feels like a train going underneath. But with the quake itself, I honestly don't know if I got out of bed or was thrown out. I was lying there, and then I was up and running for shelter in the doorway. All the furniture in the apartment went for a bit of a wander.