Potamia

Three people sustained minor injuries after a strong quake, measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale, struck the seaside town of Parga in western Greece.

According to the National Observatory's Geodynamic Institute, the quake was recorded at 2.49 a.m., with its epicenter located 14 kilometers northwest of Parga, at a depth of 10 kilometers.

Two people were killed and one injured on Monday after a garbage collection truck plunged into a ravine on the Aegean island of Tinos on Monday.

Fire service workers pulled out the bodies of two municipal workers and rescued a third employee who was hospitalized.

Firefighters battled two big blazes in the Peloponnese on Sunday, one of which came close to threatening an archaeological site.

The first fire started at 2.20 p.m. in the area of Potamia near Megalopoli in Arcadia. Fourteen fire service trucks, two private water carriers and 38 firemen brought the blaze under control.

There are mountains, mountains and more mountains. And peaks, slopes, gorges and cliffs, not to mention the rapids, rivers, streams, waterfalls, lakes and forests. In Evrytania the absolute master was, is, and will always be the physical landscape.

Thasos Island