Quake Rocks Greece, No Damage: Officials

The quake had its epicentre at sea some 200 kilometres (120 miles) off the Peloponnese.

An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the open-ended Richter scale hit Greece on Wednesday, causing no casualties or damage, officials said.
The Athens Geodynamic Institute said the quake struck at 2:27 pm (1827 GMT) and had its epicentre at sea some 200 kilometres (120 miles) off the Peloponnese.

An undersea earthquake measuring 5.4 jolted southern Greece earlier Wednesday but no damage or injuries were reported. The quake in the early hours of Wednesday had its epicentre 230 kilometres (143 miles) southwest of Athens in the vicinity of the Cythera islands, south of the Peloponnese peninsula, the institute said.
Two stronger quakes measuring 6.5 and 6.4 on Richter scale struck on February 14 in the same area which is highly seismically active.

Seismologists say that Greece, which accounts for half the seismic shocks recorded on the continent, experiences small tremors almost every day.
Seismic activity has been heightened this week, with a 4.4-Richter tremor recorded near Mount Parnitha northwest of Athens on Sunday and another registering 4.0 in the same area on Tuesday.
The Mount Parnitha area was the epicentre of a 5.9-Richter quake that killed 143 people in Athens in 1999.