Athens News Agency: News in English, 00-10-12

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

CONTENTS

[01] Earthquake

[02] Oil slick

[01] Earthquake

A mild earthquake jolted the western port city of Patras Thursday, and no damage or panic were immediately reported.

The Patras University Seismology Laboratory recorded a tremor of 3.9 Richter magnitude at 8:37 a.m., with its epicentre in the Rio-Antirrio sea region and coming from a depth of 10 kilometres.

[02] Oil slick

An oil slick was caused by fuel oil in the sea region of Ikonio, Keratsini, near Patras, early Thursday during the unloading of the Kayman Islands-flagged "Captain Spyros" freighter, Harbour Authority sources said.

They said a private team immediately set up a double barrier and commenced clean-up operations, supervised by the Harbour Corps.

No information was immediately available on the quantity of fuel oil spilled or the freighter's cargo.

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