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Students in Greece Set Out to Recreate Eratosthenes' Experiment to Recalculate Earth’s Circumference
Students from Greek schools will participate in a science project which will recalculate the earth’s circumference, repeating the experiment of the famous Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer Eratosthenes.
The project is being held on the occasion of the Spring Equinox...
Greece
4.5 Richter Earthquake Shakes Greek Island of Crete
An earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale was recorded at 5:16 am in the marine area south-southeast of Lasithi in Crete, noted the National Observatories' Athens Institute of Geodynamics.
The tremor’s epicenter was detected 64 kilometers south-southeast of Zakros...