The quakes hit near the island of tourist hotspot Zante at around 2.30 PM local time. The strongest of the tremors was a 4.8 on the richter scale, followed by a magnitude 4.5 quake and hour later.

Firefighters are battling wildfires in Greece as tourists and locals have been evacuated from blazes that are tearing through Ionian islands. Officials ordered the evacuations of dozens of villages ...

Compared to Santorini and neighbouring Greek island Zante, Kefalonia is untouched. Finding fame in the 2001 film Captain Corelli's Mandolin, its clear blue water and brightly painted houses situated ...