Turkey and Greece earthquake latest: One dead and dozens injured as 5.8-magnitude quake sparks panic - Tourists in Rhodes, Greece describe hotels shaking and scenes of panic as quake strikes just ...

A powerful 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck Greece on Wednesday, July 23, between two holiday hotspots. The huge tremor hit between the islands of Crete and Antikythera shortly before 4.30pm local time.

ANKARA, June 3. /TASS/. A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has been recorded in the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece’s Dodecanese Islands, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center reported.

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"Greece has got the highest seismic activity in Europe and next to Turkey we have two countries with very high activity. But as I said, the big magnitudes, the catastrophic magnitudes, are very rare."

Summer wildfires are common in both Greece and Turkey, where experts warn that climate change is intensifying conditions. Gatopoulos reported from Athens. Omar Albam in Idlib, Syria, contributed.

(FRY, GREECE) -- A 6.1 magnitude earthquake was reported near Greece early Wednesday local time, according to the United States Geological Survey.Greek Emergency Management warned of a possible tsunam

The fire service is also dealing with three other major fires in the southwest on Greece’s two largest islands — Crete in the south and Evia north of Athens — and also on the island of Kythera, northwest of Crete.