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On 22 September and 16 October 1988, two earthquakes occurred with magnitudes of 5.6 and 6.0 in the Killini-Vartholomio area (western Peloponnese) and caused extensive damage. Thousands of homes were reduced to rubble, but there was no loss of life. This is because the “beast” did not appear suddenly, since, as explained below, the population had been informed from the beginning of September that large earthquakes would occur in this region in the next time period and on their own initiative people took elementary precautions.
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Lazaridou-Varotsos, M.S. (2013). Disastrous earthquakes in Killini-Vartholomio, 1988. In: Earthquake Prediction by Seismic Electric Signals. Springer Praxis Books. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24406-3_6
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