Mini - tsunami? Not quite, but waves as high as two meters startled swimmers and locals on several beaches on the northern coast of nomos Korinthias. (The beaches were the waves were observed were at Kiato, Derveni, Selianitika and Loggos.)
At first, people feared that a earthquake had hit, which may have caused the huge waves. But officials now believe that either an underwater rock slide or a huge vessel passing by in the water generated the waves.
DF Quick Fact: While tsunamis are almost impossible to occur in the Gulf of Corinth, they can occur in the Aegean Sea, and occurred during the eruption of Thera which devastated Crete and other small islands.
Kathimerini
posted on Wednesday, August 27