Experts warn Lesvos’ 4.9-magnitude tremor may not be main event

Greek seismologists warned that a 4.9-magnitude earthquake that shook the island of Lesvos, in the eastern Aegean, early Saturday morning, causing rockfalls and minor damages to old houses, may not be the main event.

"We need to be a little bit careful because the fault that caused today's earthquakes is close to the larger fault of Agia Paraskevi that runs through the island from one end to the other," seismology professor and Director of the Athens Geodynamic Institute, Akis Tselentis, told state-run news agency AMNA.

"We are not 100% sure that this is the main earthquake and for the moment it is difficult to claim such a thing."

The view was shared by seismologist Gerasimos Papadopoulos who told ANT1 channel "it is too early to assess whether this 4.9-Richter earthquake was the main one." 

"An earthquake is a dynamic phenomenon, every smaller...