{"id":10692,"date":"2026-06-14T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10692"},"modified":"2026-06-14T21:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T18:35:00","slug":"5-1-magnitude-earthquake-in-methoni-no-damage-to-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10692","title":{"rendered":"5.1-magnitude earthquake in Methoni &#8211; No damage to homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Earthquake <\/b>5.3 on the Richter scale occurred on Sunday night in Methoni.<\/p>\n<p>According to the revised data from the Geodynamic Institute, the seismic tremor occurred at <b>21:17 <\/b>and had its epicenter in a marine area <b>18 kilometers <\/b>southwest of Methoni, southwest of Methoni, with a <b>focal depth of 9 kilometers.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Vasilis Karastathis<\/b>, Director of the Geodynamic Institute, spoke to ERTnews, saying: \u201cThe earthquake measured 5.1 on the Richter scale, and there was no foreshock.\u201d \u201cIn the past, stronger earthquakes have occurred in the area.\u201d \u201cThe area is adjacent to the boundary of the tectonic plates,\u201d he explained. \u201cWe expect to wait 24 hours to see how the situation develops,\u201d he said, sounding reassuring. <\/p>\n<p>Reporting on the situation from the earthquake zone, the mayor of Pylos-Nestoras, Panagiotis Karvelas, said: \u201c<b>The earthquake was strong. However, there is no damage to homes.\u201d \u201cThe infrastructure held up<\/b>,\u201d he emphasized. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck Methoni on Sunday night.According to the revised solution from the Geodynamic Institute, the seismic tremor &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}