New seismic tremor and this time felt in the Limassol district, as reported by the Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Institute and the Geological Officer at the Geological Survey Department, Sylvana Pilidou.
Ms. Pilidou refers to the continuous earthquakes, stating that these microearthquakes, possibly 10 years ago would not have been recorded, at least not all of them.
"Limassol's menosequakes are many in number (>70), but very small (0.3≤M≤2.9), the smallest of which are recorded due to the increased discreteness of our new seismological network. If a similar phenomenon had occurred 10 years ago we would have recorded a very small percentage of these earthquakes. The reason why some of these micro-earthquakes are felt is the fact that their foci are located at shallow depths below populated areas."
"The Yermosoya fault in the past has not produced earthquakes larger than M=4.5, but it is a branch of the larger Gerasa fault, which has given large earthquakes (M=5.6 in 1999)" he notes.
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