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[Sotos]

Earthquake in Limassol about 15 minutes ago... hopefully it was the "big" one and nothing worst will follow.

[miltiades]

Didn't feel a thing.

[miltiades]

Apparently it occured at 2.09 pm.
4.5 to 5 on Richter scale .

[repulsewarrior]

http://www.gdacs.org/Earthquakes/report ... enttype=EQ

M 4.9 in Cyprus on 29 Oct 2018 12:09 UTC

GDACS is a cooperation framework between the United Nations, the European Commission and disaster managers worldwide to improve alerts, information exchange and coordination in the first phase after major sudden-onset disasters.

interesting site.

[B25]

Earthquake in Limassol about 15 minutes ago... hopefully it was the "big" one and nothing worst will follow.

Did any of those towers come down ! It is inevitable though init?

[CBBB]

Earthquake in Limassol about 15 minutes ago... hopefully it was the "big" one and nothing worst will follow.

Did any of those towers come down ! It is inevitable though init?

My office is right in front of the Oval, fortunately it stayed up!

[repulsewarrior]

...actually, modern high-rises, like institutional buildings, may be made earth-quake resistant; counter-intuitively, safer in then, than out.

Unfortunately, it takes one or two earth-quake disasters to motivate what a developer will specify, in this regard, for their building projects.

[GreekIslandGirl]

Fracking causing mini earthquakes in the UK at the moment.