Pafos Live 4 September 2024
Interesting fact through pafoslive research. Like the false earthquake, the most destructive earthquake in Pafos of modern times, in 1953 was recorded again in September, on 10-9-1953. It was magnitude 6.5 on the Richter scale. At that time, villages in the Pafos district had been razed to the ground, 40 deaths and 100 wounded had been recorded.
The most recent earthquake in 1995, which occurred in February, was magnitude 5.9 on the Richter scale and left behind two dead, five injured and major damage, mainly in communities in Laona.
