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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS – They didn’t say when it would happen – only that it would someday – was the warning from two Greek scientists who looked at the country’s seismic history and said there was the likelihood of an 8.5 earthquake on the Richter scale.
The Feb. 6 earthquake that devastated a part of Turkey and killed 41,000 people there and another 5,000 in Syria was registered at 7.8, the strongest in the region for some 80 years.
Professors Costas Synolakis and Costas Papazakos studied the circumstances of a series of earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria and told Greece’s MEGA TV that Greece could also face strong seismic activity.
They noted that strong earthquakes in Greece occur once every 600 years.
“The last major earthquake in Crete occurred in 1403 and I estimate that such earthquakes occur every 600-800 years. We are already at the threshold of an earthquake of the order of 8.5 points on the Richter scale,” Synolakis said.
Papazakos, a seismology professor at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki agreed and said that, however, it’s impossible to predict when that could happen, both stressing what they were giving was an early warning to prepare.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.
Mykonos’ run has been going on for a long time, bringing hordes of tourists, but it’s being cut down by its reputation for being rowdy, expensive, overcrowded and gouging diners while businesses evade taxes.