KOS –
Tourists and residents of the holiday island of Kos have to the next month and a half to take into account the possibility of aftershocks and new earthquakes. That says, the Greek seismoloog Christos Papaioannou Institute of Engineering Seismology and Earthquake Engineering in Thessaloniki.
During a visit to the island Sunday ” he says the vacationers do not hesitate to say, after Kos in the night from Thursday to Friday was hit by an earthquake (6.5) and Saturday night new was startled by a violent aftershock of 4.4. “The next forty days, there is an increased chance of quakes in the area between Kos and the Turkish coast,” said the seismoloog after a discussion with the town of Kos.
The Dutch having, according to him not be excessive to worry about their safety. “There are also Dutch tourists and business people to Japan?”, says Papaioannou. “There are the quakes heavier, more numerous and more violent than here.”
Ordinary life on Kos takes over now, already bring a lot of tourists still prefer the night in a deck chair by the pool or in a beach chair on the coast. The Greeks themselves, there are also not assured. In the parks, in the resort are tents and are mattresses of residents ready for the next night. A few sleeps on the balcony or in the porch of his house.
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The local businessmen had seen the earthquake as a nasty setback in a recovering tourist market. Last year showed tourists the lot down by the influx of thousands of refugees to Kos. Now that flow has virtually dried up, it seemed like a excellent summer season. Hence, many Greeks with chagrijn respond to messages about the quake.
Employee Adriaan Voorbraak of the Dutch feestcafé Orange Camelot in the heart of Kos regrets the temporary dip. His café is just around the corner from café White Corner, where Thursday night a Swede and a Turk on the terrace are buried under a collapsing facade, and died.
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The feestcafé running as usual. “Everyone is shocked, but except for a few collapsed old buildings there is relatively little to hand,” said Groninger, who are colleagues jokes that he is an experienced practitioner, is to earthquakes. “If this quake in Groningen had taken place with the same strength, then there was a lot more damage.”
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At the local branch of tour operator Corendon is nevertheless still worked hard to make the aftermath of the earthquake in the right direction. Guests arriving to house wanted, have now left. According to Daisy Mijnals of Corendon, there are no people more that anyway with the next plane home want. Sunday night arrives again a fully booked flight of Corendon at the airport of Kos, with 189 passengers. According Mijnals has no one his flight to Kos cancelled.