Moderate quake rattles Lakonia and Messinia

A moderate earthquake shook areas of Lakonia and Messinia in the Peloponnese in southern Greece on Monday at 7.40 a.m.

According to the Geodynamic Institute of the National Observatory of Athens, the earthquake had a magnitude of 4.1 Richter. It struck 32 kilometres southwest of Gerolimenas, a seaside village on the southern end of the Mani peninsula, at a depth of 21 kilometres.

There were no reports of injuries or damage.