
Kos earthquake — in pictures
A strong earthquake struck the island of Kos at 01.32 am on Friday, killing two people and injuring many others.
Photos: Dionisis Partheniadis / SOOC
The 6.6-magnitude quake hit 12km northeast of Kos with a depth of 10km, the Athens Geodynamic Institute said. Almost 200 aftershocks followed the main quake, with many sleeping outdoors on sunbeds or slumped on cafe tables.
A 39-year-old Turk and a 27-year-old Swede are reportedly dead, according to sources.
Authorities said over 200 people were also injured.
Meanwhile, Greek health officials say 13 people of different nationalities have been airlifted to hospitals in Athens and on the islands of Rhodes and Crete following the earthquake.
According to Athens News Agency the hospital in Crete said that a 21-year-old Swedish national remains in the ICU with serious head injuries and multiple fractures throughout his body. A 23-year-old Norwegian national brought in with his lower left leg amputated at the shin has also undergone an amputation of his lower right leg and is now in the hospital’s orthopedic clinic.
A Greek national, aged 37, with a fractured eye socket has been admitted to the hospital’s eye clinic and a 28-year-old Greek woman with fractures of the lower limbs is also in the orthopedic clinic, while she has undergone thoracic surgery.
Some buildings on the island have suffered serious damage.
The island’s port has sustained damage while the airport is operating normally. The infrastructure on the island is functional and the only problems are limited to the port, the mayor of Kos Giorgos Kyritsis said to the press.
“There are about 200,000 tourists on the island, we are at the peak season. Our first reaction was to calm the tourists, following basic rules and evacuating hotel buildings,” Constantina Svynou, head of the hoteliers’ association in Kos, told Greek state television that many visitors had spent the night outside their hotels, adding that there had been no injuries at hotels.
Alexis Tsipras PM explained that Greece is a seismogenic area and we need to get familiar with this and overcome the difficulties.
The EU is offering emergency equipment, personnel and satellite imagery to help Greece deal with the aftermath of the overnight earthquake.





There has been damage to monuments and archaeological sites on Kos as a result of the strong earthquake that shook the island in the early hours of Friday morning, a team of archaeological service experts sent by the culture ministry reported.
The inspection revealed damage to sites around the town, the castle and the Ottoman mosques, the team said, announcing that preliminary protection measures will be taken and the monuments restored after due study.
“For this purpose, a Central Service team from the Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments Restoration directorate will go to Kos on Saturday and Monday in order to assess the situation and finalise the actions [that will be taken],” a culture ministry announcement said.
The archaeological site of the Kos Askleipion will remain open, however, and for the period when the museum and the Castle on Kos will be closed, the culture ministry is arranging to open to the public certain archaeological sites that were previously closed to visitors. via ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ











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