Experts meeting in the town of Plomari in Lesvos on Sunday following a landslide on the island, decided to evacuate 29 buildings, fifteen of which are private homes.
The decisions affect a total of 37 people in Plomari who are currently being housed in hotels.
The meeting was convened by the Civil Protection Coordination Agency. The decision was based on advice from Efthymis Lekkas, the head of the Anti-Seismic Planning and Protection Agency. Lekkas worked in conjunction with a team of scientists from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens who had earlier inspected the landslide site.
In statements to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA), Lekkas said the landslide was caused by a combination of factors, including the morphology of the land, minor seismic activity, intense rainfall and the geology of the landscape. It was an area prone to landslides, which have also occurred in the past, he pointed out.
“At this moment we are investigating both on the ground and with two aerial drones to explore all parameters of the phenomenon. Armed with our first basic scientific estimates we delineated the area that is at a possibly high risk of additional landslides,” Lekkas noted, adding that in the next few days “we will be able to talk with greater certainty about what must be done.”
(Source: AMNA)
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