Greece issues tsunami warning after strong earthquake

Myself & my daughter were woken at 1.51am after feeling the hotel room shake - at first we had no idea what it was both of us were feeling very anxious. My daughter Georgia googled earthquake only to find that there had been a 6.1 in the area. We have a car and decided to drive to hire ground after reading there was a possibility of a tsunami."

She told The Mirror

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake occurred 48km SE of Kasos. Risk of possible Tsunami in your area,

announced the Ministry via its official communication channels

Me and my family where sleeping when we woke up to the feeling of motion like a baby swing i tried to find a stable point so i looked at my bambo plant its long and I saw it swaying left and right extremely after the shaking there was still clacking in the kitch so my mom went there and saw that the mugs that we hang on the kitchen wall are still hitting the wall even after the shaking stopped.”

A resident of Giza wrote

Was lying in bed, noticed my partner shaking, realised I was also shaking. It went on for over half a minute. A little later I saw there had been an earthquake at the exact time.”

From Rhodes, another resident reported

The couch was shaking side ways, water bottles fell from over the coffee table, lighting kept shaking. But other than that nothing really didn’t feel like I was in danger at all. I felt that from the third floor.”

A resident in Cairo described

My bed moved and shaked on the third floor in the hotel Infinity Blue in Hersonissos (close to the beach). I felt it shake against the wall. It is the first time in my life. I turned the air conditioning of, thinking it was cause by it. It woke me up. I checked the time at 1:56 AM,

one person reported