Sitting between Asia, Africa and Europe, Crete is located around 200 miles south of mainland Greece. With an area of about 3,300 square miles, Crete is one of the largest islands in the Mediterranean.

All times on the map are Eastern European time. The New York Times A strong, 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck in the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

More than 1,500 people have been evacuated from hotels and homes on the Greek island of Crete because of a rapidly sweeping ...

A tsunami warning has been issued off the coast of Greece following an earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale. Powerful tremors rocked the island of Crete and were felt as far away as ...

Tourists in Crete were shaken and buildings damaged after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck off the north-east coast in the early hours of Thursday morning.. The quake struck at 6.19 local time (3 ...

Maps of the coastal shelves suggest that even when the Mediterranean reached its lowest known point, plummeting some 440 feet (144 meters) below current sea level, people leaving from Turkey or ...

The undersea cables to Crete have been laid at a depth of 1,200 meters (nearly 4,000 feet) and will support a capacity of 1,000 megawatts using high-voltage direct current transmission systems.

About 100 Junkers and Focke-Wulf transport planes flying in vies (V-shaped formations) at about 400 feet, swept in over the Canea-Malemi-Suda Bay area (see map, p. 23).

Akti Ilia Sotirchou, Ag.Nikolaos, Lasithi, Crete 72100 Demetrios Ioannou is an independent reporter and documentary photographer based between Athens, Greece, and Istanbul, Turkey.