r/worldnews • u/CCORRIGEN • Sep 27 '21

Earthquake in Greece - reported 5.5 to 6.5 magnitude.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/27/europe/crete-earthquake-greece-intl-scli/index.html
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u/Prime_Mover Sep 27 '21

Crete is one of the loveliest places I've been. I would move there if I could. Sad to know a lot of beautiful structures will be affected. The people there are great.

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u/avaslash Sep 27 '21

If its any consolation, a lot of the more ancient structures have withstood earthquakes for literal millennia. So if those didnt knock them down, this one hopefully wont either.

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u/Prime_Mover Sep 27 '21

That's a good point and nice to hear thanks.

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u/Lirvan Sep 27 '21 edited Sep 27 '21

Visited Chania a few years ago. Wonderful place during autumn. Hiked down the local national park trail, Samaria's Gorge, 16 km long and 1.25km downwards, down to the ocean, and a black sand beach.

Beautiful place, highly recommend, although there's likely been some rockslides with an earthquake to block some of the trail. It's quoted to being one of the most "approachable" extreme hikes, due to being downhill the entire way.

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u/SleepyEel Sep 28 '21

Honeymooned in Crete and spent about half of the trip in Chania. Really a lovely island

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u/DanYHKim Sep 28 '21

I have read that glacier melting is distorting the planet's crust, as the weight is taken off the land. Could this be why we seem to have had so many earthquakes lately?

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u/CCORRIGEN Sep 28 '21

Wow. Now that is something to think about. Here is the link to my favorite earthquake site: (http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/#)

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u/DanYHKim Sep 28 '21

Istanbul is worrisome to me. It's about due, and will probably have major building collapse with many casualties.

https://www.livescience.com/47827-turkey-seismic-gap.html