Border-Crossing Electrons: Critical Energy Flows to and from Greece

Abstract

“Dance of the Richters/’ read the title of a half-page article in the May 12, 1995 issue of the popular Greek newspaper Nea (News). “There have been 30 earthquakes of over 4 on the Richter scale in the last 40 days in many areas of Greece… the intense seismic activity of recent days has caused uneasiness, but the seismologists reassure us that it is not an unusual phenomenon and that there is no risk.”¹ The earthquake that hit Greece the following day was unusual on many levels. Makedonia (Macedonia), the newspaper with the largest circulation in Northern Greece, called it “a major geological surprise.”² The 6.6 Richter quake had its epicenter at one of the few areas in Greece that was not considered seismo-genic, near the city of Kozani. This was the largest city in the western part of the Greek region of Macedonia.³