6.8 earthquake hits Greece, no injury
Athens, Oct 26 (IBNS): An earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale hit Mouzaki area of Greece on Friday, as per the USGS website.
A series of aftershocks have hit the area.
"Nobody was injured by the tremor, which struck at 01:54 on Friday (22:54 GMT), but there was significant damage to the local port and a 13th Century island monastery south of Zakynthos," BBC reported.
"Everything was visibly shaking up and down. The table, wardrobe and beds were all bouncing," British holidaymaker Joanna Jones from Liverpool, who was staying with her family at a hotel in Alykanas, in the north of the island, told BBC.
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